The Story Of The Blues · Gary Moore

79 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 69 BPM, 6:50 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / BluesUnder 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
25/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 60% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 7-13 and 15-20, and 9 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 69 BPM
THE STORY OF THE BLUES · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 21, 28, 37, 44 and 45.

LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22
LOOP · 69 BPM
BAR 37 · LANDS ON BAR 38
LOOP · 69 BPM
BARS 44-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

79 bars across 2 sections: 47 keep time, 6 are fills and 26 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 6-20.

OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Story Of The Blues?

69 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Story Of The Blues hard to play on drums?

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

79 bars, about 6:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Story Of The Blues?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 5, 21, 28, 37, 44 and 45.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED
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