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The Story Of The Blues · Gary Moore

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove C -- Outro
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0 / 15 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
BREAK
2 groovesCS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Story Of The Blues on drums

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.

25 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
6:50
DIFFICULTY
25/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-53 and silence through bars 54-79.

The beat

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.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
The Story Of The Blues -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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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