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The Real Folk Blues · Yoko Kanno

The Real Folk Blues · Yoko Kanno
EXERCISE 17 OF 44
Groove M
44 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGSDBNCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Real Folk Blues on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-41, ride through bars 42-48, hi-hat through bars 49-95 and ride through bars 96-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 20-22 and 24-26, and 2 more places -- 12.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
The Real Folk Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 27, 29, 30 and 65 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- G, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BN -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 39-76 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-84 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Real Folk Blues?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 The Real Folk Blues hard to play on drums?

58 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Real Folk Blues?

12 fills to learn, played 71 times: bars 1, 2, 6, 27, 29, 30 and 65 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED