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4th Of July · Soundgarden

EXERCISE 34 OF 42
Fill at bar 72 (a small one)
59 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
BREAK 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART P
PART C
OUTRO
9 groovesHCS3PU+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 4th Of July on drums

90 bars, 5:04, at 71 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
71 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
5:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-22, hi-hat through bars 23-54, snare through bars 55-60 and toms through bars 61-65, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 25 and 27, and 8 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
4th Of July -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

  1. The grooves the song is built on -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part L and Part P -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-65 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-87 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 4th Of July?

71 BPM, in 4/4, 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 4th Of July hard to play on drums?

51 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 5:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in 4th Of July?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 34, 38, 40, 42, 44, 46 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED