zz top blue jean blues · Zztop

52 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 60 BPM, 5:10 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
52
LENGTH
5:10
DIFFICULTY
29/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 51% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-13 and 27-34 -- 51.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 60 BPM
ZZ TOP BLUE JEAN BLUES · BAR 5
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 26.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

52 bars across 4 sections: 31 keep time, 2 are fills and 17 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-13.

CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesBS4DFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is zz top blue jean blues?

60 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 zz top blue jean blues hard to play on drums?

29 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

52 bars, about 5:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 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 zz top blue jean blues?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 14 and 26.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 52 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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