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A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears · Electric Chair Suicide

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EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove M -- Part M (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 35 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART A
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART Q
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFMQAUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-13, toms through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-17, toms through bars 18-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-25, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-43, 45-51 and 78-84, and 1 more place -- 20.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38                                               39
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |----x---x-------x---x-------x---x-------x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 116, 117 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, G (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 16-94 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears?

128 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 81 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 A Government Grant At The Highway of Tears?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 116, 117 and 2 more.

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