'Round Midnight
Thelonious Monk · 1947
The classic jazz ballad for brushes and rubato-to-time transitions.
- Artist
- Thelonious Monk
- Year
- 1947
- Genre
- jazz
- Drummer
- Art Blakey
- Tempo
- 60 bpm
- Time
- 4/4
- Feel
- ballad
- Difficulty
- intermediate
Drummer's Quick-Start
Practice tempos
Woodshed
36bpm
Building
48bpm
Target
60bpm
The feel
A ballad in 4/4 around 60 BPM. It's slow — the space between hits is the hard part; keep the pulse dead steady and resist filling gaps.
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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Learn it
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