The virtual drummer plays Michael Bland's drum solo with Prince.

Online drum lessons & sheet music with drum solo transcription.

Let's learn from Michael Bland's extraordinary skill, the single-stroke technique that stands out in this his drum solo.

Michael Bland is a typical, modern figure of an eclectic drummer with an ineccepible technique, good at every musical language; his powerful and precise style, anyway, best fits the funk-rock style. Born (1969) in Minneapolis like Prince, with whom he played and recorded for seven years from 1989, in the Prince / New Power Generation period, under the name of Michael B.
He has done a lot of work as a session man, and has played in some personal projects like Soul Asylum and Madhouse.

In the drum sheet you'll find the transcription of Michael Bland's drum solo of sixteen bars, intro to the song Shhh, taken from the Prince and New Power Generation album "The Gold Experience" (1995).

You can adjust the BPM of the virtual drums to the speed you prefer, if you want to study one line of the score at a time, press the LOOP button.
The next step in your study could be the drum lesson dedicated to Dave Weckl, another great drummer of the 90s, with the transcription of his song Tower of Inspiration.

Learn to read the drum sheet music:    Drum set elements    Notes and Rests    Tie and Dot