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

EXERCISE 9 OF 90
Join Part S2 to Part G (bars 12-14)
62 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2, PART G
PART S2
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
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 5
JOIN · 18
LINK · 6
SECTION · 16
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Voodoo Child (Slight Return) on drums

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.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
7:50
DIFFICULTY
77/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-171, silence through bars 172-176, ride through bars 177-182, kick and crashes through bars 183-185 and snare through bars 186-187.

The beat

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.

    53
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----------|
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 27-161 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-53 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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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