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Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix · Steely Dan

EXERCISE 18 OF 31
Groove Q
46 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEKBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix on drums

61 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-36, ride through bars 37-41, hi-hat through bars 42-59 and snare through bars 60-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 12, and 7 more places -- 28.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x------xx-x-----|
Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 19, 20, 28, 36, 37 and 6 more.

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 -- B, K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Any Major Dude Will Tell You - fix?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 19, 20, 28, 36, 37 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED