T-Bone Shuffle · T-Bone Walker

100 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:02 of playing, on ride, snare and kick.

Jazz / Blues120 to 149 BPMShuffle / tripletFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 99% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-100 -- 99% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 132 BPM
T-BONE SHUFFLE · BAR 5
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

100 bars across 3 sections: 96 keep time and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-100.

OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS2S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is T-Bone Shuffle?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is T-Bone Shuffle hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 3 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

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