The Ballad Of Curtis Loew · Lynyrd Skynyrd

52 bars, 2:56, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-17 and 47-51 -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 72 BPM
THE BALLAD OF CURTIS LOEW · BAR 12
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 26, 30, 38, 44 and 46.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 30 · LANDS ON BAR 31
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 5 sections: 28 keep time, 6 are fills, 5 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-17.

COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDBOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Ballad Of Curtis Loew?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Ballad Of Curtis Loew hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in The Ballad Of Curtis Loew?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 26, 30, 38, 44 and 46.

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