Voodoo Child (Slight Return) · Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

187 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 7:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Jazz / BluesRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-25, 27-29 and 34-35, and 12 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 95 BPM
VOODOO CHILD (SLIGHT RETURN) · BAR 53
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 67, 115 and 17 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BARS 10-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 67 · LANDS ON BAR 68
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 115 · LANDS ON BAR 116
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 121 · LANDS ON BAR 122 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

7 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

187 bars across 24 sections: 112 keep time, 23 are fills and 16 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-25.

PART G
CHORUS
PART AC
PART AJ
PART AU
PART J
PART W
PART L
OUTRO
18 groovesJPWGAC+13Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Voodoo Child (Slight Return)?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Voodoo Child (Slight Return) hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 7:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 29 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Voodoo Child (Slight Return)?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 67, 115 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED
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