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A Horse with No Name (Acoustic Version) · America

EXERCISE 5 OF 6
Play the whole song with the record
91 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 120 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play A Horse with No Name (Acoustic Version) on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-19, snare through bars 20-64, silence through bars 65-68 and snare through bars 69-120.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-63, 69-96 and 98-103, and 2 more places -- 91.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    22
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |x--x--r--x--x--x--r--x--|
BD |x-----------------x-----|
A Horse with No Name (Acoustic Version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is A Horse with No Name (Acoustic Version)?

122 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 Horse with No Name (Acoustic Version) hard to play on drums?

34 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED