Chords for How To Drum - Blues Drumming - Drumming Lessons
Tempo:
70.55 bpm
Chords used:
G
F
D
A
C
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[G]
[D] [A] [F] [C]
[G] [F] [G]
Alright, we are going [Abm] to talk about the slow blues today.
This is going to be an easier lesson.
Not that much pizzazz to it.
There's nothing fancy I can throw at the beginning that's going to make you go, oh man, I got
to learn that lick.
Nothing.
It's just a slow blues.
When you're practicing this, I want you to think, man, I just got fired.
My drums just burned up with my house.
My girlfriend just left me with a dog and she's getting another [Gb] dog and naming it after
me because I'm a [N] dog.
Life sucks.
Let's play the blues.
That's what you got to think about, right?
No, I'm not saying, please don't say I'm cheapening the music.
Not by any means.
But these guys that wrote these songs, I mean, they got a certain feel to them.
You know, there's a certain heaviness to what they do.
Especially slow blues tunes.
You got to get in the feel of it.
Everybody's got to leave you.
Everybody's got to desert you.
Life's got to suck real bad.
And then you go play the blues.
So I grew up in Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta.
And this is one of the easiest blues beats there is.
The shuffle's very popular with the blues.
And this one's also very popular.
It's a 6-8 blues, slow blues.
So what it's going to be is we're going to count it like this.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Told you that was easy.
Okay?
We're going to put bass drum on the downbeats like this.
And then we're going to lead into that.
So boom, bow, like this.
Okay?
All there is is to add snare on 4.
So 1, 2, 3, back.
[Eb] 1, 2, 3, my dog left me.
1, 2, 3, my wife left me.
1, 2, 3, [N] life sucks.
That's how you got to play, right?
I'm not down on the blues by any means.
I'm just trying to make this lesson anything kind of fun because the blues, this is not
the most up-tempo beat.
But it's cool and it's a relevant beat to learn.
So here we go.
We're going to put it all together.
So 1, 2, 3, 4.
That's it.
That's the beat.
Okay?
The reason I slap 1, sometimes in blues music, whenever they, sometimes they'll go to the
chorus, make it real loud.
And when they bring it down, they like to, they make it just like instantly quiet.
So you can talk about how bad things are, right?
So that's it.
Slow blues 6, 8.
Okay?
If you ever get called on a gig, part of what I want to do is equip you guys.
So if you get called for a gig and they go, hey, can you play blues?
Sure.
You can fake your way through the gig.
Until you've mastered the whole concept.
But as long as you know the blues 6, 8 and the shuffle beat, you can usually get through
a blues gig.
Okay?
So this is a very pertinent beat that you should just put in your arsenal, throw it
in your back pocket.
So if you don't know it, now you do.
[D] [A] [F] [C]
[G] [F] [G]
Alright, we are going [Abm] to talk about the slow blues today.
This is going to be an easier lesson.
Not that much pizzazz to it.
There's nothing fancy I can throw at the beginning that's going to make you go, oh man, I got
to learn that lick.
Nothing.
It's just a slow blues.
When you're practicing this, I want you to think, man, I just got fired.
My drums just burned up with my house.
My girlfriend just left me with a dog and she's getting another [Gb] dog and naming it after
me because I'm a [N] dog.
Life sucks.
Let's play the blues.
That's what you got to think about, right?
No, I'm not saying, please don't say I'm cheapening the music.
Not by any means.
But these guys that wrote these songs, I mean, they got a certain feel to them.
You know, there's a certain heaviness to what they do.
Especially slow blues tunes.
You got to get in the feel of it.
Everybody's got to leave you.
Everybody's got to desert you.
Life's got to suck real bad.
And then you go play the blues.
So I grew up in Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta.
And this is one of the easiest blues beats there is.
The shuffle's very popular with the blues.
And this one's also very popular.
It's a 6-8 blues, slow blues.
So what it's going to be is we're going to count it like this.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Told you that was easy.
Okay?
We're going to put bass drum on the downbeats like this.
And then we're going to lead into that.
So boom, bow, like this.
Okay?
All there is is to add snare on 4.
So 1, 2, 3, back.
[Eb] 1, 2, 3, my dog left me.
1, 2, 3, my wife left me.
1, 2, 3, [N] life sucks.
That's how you got to play, right?
I'm not down on the blues by any means.
I'm just trying to make this lesson anything kind of fun because the blues, this is not
the most up-tempo beat.
But it's cool and it's a relevant beat to learn.
So here we go.
We're going to put it all together.
So 1, 2, 3, 4.
That's it.
That's the beat.
Okay?
The reason I slap 1, sometimes in blues music, whenever they, sometimes they'll go to the
chorus, make it real loud.
And when they bring it down, they like to, they make it just like instantly quiet.
So you can talk about how bad things are, right?
So that's it.
Slow blues 6, 8.
Okay?
If you ever get called on a gig, part of what I want to do is equip you guys.
So if you get called for a gig and they go, hey, can you play blues?
Sure.
You can fake your way through the gig.
Until you've mastered the whole concept.
But as long as you know the blues 6, 8 and the shuffle beat, you can usually get through
a blues gig.
Okay?
So this is a very pertinent beat that you should just put in your arsenal, throw it
in your back pocket.
So if you don't know it, now you do.
Key:
G
F
D
A
C
G
F
D
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
Alright, we are going [Abm] to talk about the slow blues today.
This is going to be an easier lesson.
Not that much pizzazz to it.
There's nothing fancy I can throw at the beginning that's going to make you go, oh man, I got
to learn that lick.
Nothing.
It's just a slow blues.
When you're practicing this, I want you to think, man, I just got fired.
My drums just burned up with my house.
_ My girlfriend just left me with a dog and she's getting another [Gb] dog and naming it after
me because I'm a [N] dog.
_ Life sucks.
Let's play the blues.
That's what you got to think about, right?
No, I'm not saying, please don't say I'm cheapening the music.
Not by any means.
But these guys that wrote these songs, I mean, they got a certain feel to them.
You know, there's a certain heaviness to what they do.
Especially slow blues tunes.
You got to get in the feel of it.
Everybody's got to leave you.
Everybody's got to desert you.
Life's got to suck real bad.
And then you go play the blues.
So I grew up in Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta.
And this is one of the easiest blues beats there is.
The shuffle's very popular with the blues.
And this one's also very popular.
It's a 6-8 blues, slow blues.
So what it's going to be is we're going to count it like this.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Told you that was easy.
Okay?
We're going to put bass drum on the downbeats like this. _ _
_ _ _ And then we're going to lead into that.
So boom, bow, like this.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay?
All there is is to add snare on 4.
So 1, 2, 3, back.
[Eb] 1, 2, 3, my dog left me.
1, 2, 3, my wife left me.
1, 2, 3, [N] life sucks.
That's how you got to play, right?
I'm not down on the blues by any means.
I'm just trying to make this lesson anything kind of fun because the blues, this is not
the most up-tempo beat.
But it's cool and it's a relevant beat to learn.
So here we go.
We're going to put it all together.
So 1, 2, 3, 4. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That's it.
That's the beat.
Okay?
The reason I slap 1, sometimes in blues music, whenever they, sometimes they'll go to the
chorus, make it real loud.
And when they bring it down, they like to, _ _ they make it just like instantly quiet.
So you can talk about how bad things are, right?
So that's it.
Slow blues 6, 8.
Okay?
If you ever get called on a gig, part of what I want to do is equip you guys.
So if you get called for a gig and they go, hey, can you play blues?
Sure.
You can fake your way through the gig.
Until you've mastered the whole concept.
But as long as you know the blues 6, 8 and the shuffle beat, you can usually get through
a blues gig.
Okay?
So this is a very pertinent beat that you should just put in your arsenal, throw it
in your back pocket.
So if you don't know it, now you do.
_ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ [F] _ _ [C] _
_ [G] _ _ [F] _ _ [G] _ _
Alright, we are going [Abm] to talk about the slow blues today.
This is going to be an easier lesson.
Not that much pizzazz to it.
There's nothing fancy I can throw at the beginning that's going to make you go, oh man, I got
to learn that lick.
Nothing.
It's just a slow blues.
When you're practicing this, I want you to think, man, I just got fired.
My drums just burned up with my house.
_ My girlfriend just left me with a dog and she's getting another [Gb] dog and naming it after
me because I'm a [N] dog.
_ Life sucks.
Let's play the blues.
That's what you got to think about, right?
No, I'm not saying, please don't say I'm cheapening the music.
Not by any means.
But these guys that wrote these songs, I mean, they got a certain feel to them.
You know, there's a certain heaviness to what they do.
Especially slow blues tunes.
You got to get in the feel of it.
Everybody's got to leave you.
Everybody's got to desert you.
Life's got to suck real bad.
And then you go play the blues.
So I grew up in Mississippi, in the Mississippi Delta.
And this is one of the easiest blues beats there is.
The shuffle's very popular with the blues.
And this one's also very popular.
It's a 6-8 blues, slow blues.
So what it's going to be is we're going to count it like this.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.
Told you that was easy.
Okay?
We're going to put bass drum on the downbeats like this. _ _
_ _ _ And then we're going to lead into that.
So boom, bow, like this.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
Okay?
All there is is to add snare on 4.
So 1, 2, 3, back.
[Eb] 1, 2, 3, my dog left me.
1, 2, 3, my wife left me.
1, 2, 3, [N] life sucks.
That's how you got to play, right?
I'm not down on the blues by any means.
I'm just trying to make this lesson anything kind of fun because the blues, this is not
the most up-tempo beat.
But it's cool and it's a relevant beat to learn.
So here we go.
We're going to put it all together.
So 1, 2, 3, 4. _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ That's it.
That's the beat.
Okay?
The reason I slap 1, sometimes in blues music, whenever they, sometimes they'll go to the
chorus, make it real loud.
And when they bring it down, they like to, _ _ they make it just like instantly quiet.
So you can talk about how bad things are, right?
So that's it.
Slow blues 6, 8.
Okay?
If you ever get called on a gig, part of what I want to do is equip you guys.
So if you get called for a gig and they go, hey, can you play blues?
Sure.
You can fake your way through the gig.
Until you've mastered the whole concept.
But as long as you know the blues 6, 8 and the shuffle beat, you can usually get through
a blues gig.
Okay?
So this is a very pertinent beat that you should just put in your arsenal, throw it
in your back pocket.
So if you don't know it, now you do.