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A Country Boy Can Survive · Hank Williams Jr.

EXERCISE 8 OF 29
Groove D -- Outro
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0 / 29 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCIDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Country Boy Can Survive on drums

82 bars, 4:11, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-3, kick and crashes through bars 4-6, hi-hat through bars 7-15, kick and crashes through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-46 and snare through bars 47-49, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 19-21 and 25-28, and 6 more places -- 36.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
A Country Boy Can Survive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 30, 33, 65, 68, 81 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-66 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-80 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is A Country Boy Can Survive?

75 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 A Country Boy Can Survive hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in A Country Boy Can Survive?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 30, 33, 65, 68, 81 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED