The Thrill Is Gone · B.B. King

105 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Jazz / BluesFunk / Soul90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
67/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 63% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-24, 26-36 and 38-48, and 3 more places -- 62.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 91 BPM
THE THRILL IS GONE · BARS 14-15
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

LOOP · 91 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

105 bars across 3 sections: 101 keep time and 1 is a fill. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-84.

PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDGBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Thrill Is Gone?

91 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 Thrill Is Gone hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 Thrill Is Gone?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 13.

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