The Thrill Is Gone
B.B. King · 1969
A slow minor-key blues with a straight-eighth feel, staple for restrained blues drumming.
- Artist
- B.B. King
- Year
- 1969
- Genre
- blues
- Drummer
- Herbie Lovelle
- Tempo
- 96 bpm
- Time
- 12/8
- Feel
- slow minor blues
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
58bpm
Building
76bpm
Target
96bpm
The feel
A slow minor blues in 12/8 around 96 BPM. A comfortable mid-tempo — lock the backbeat first, then shape the dynamics.
What to watch
- •Play to a metronome and prize consistency over speed — even time is the whole game.
How to learn it
Well-known tutorials exist for this one — use the links below, and play along from your own copy.
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