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Apache · The Shadows

Apache · The Shadows
EXERCISE 11 OF 28
Groove G
70 / 95 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART H, PART K
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDHCBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Apache on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
63/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-30, ride through bars 31-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50, snare through bars 51-57 and ride through bars 58-62, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 39-42, and 3 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
RD |x--x-----x--x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x--x-----x--x-----x-----------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------x-----------|
Apache -- 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 27 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 -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 39-54 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-90 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Apache?

130 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 Apache hard to play on drums?

63 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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