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Ash in the Wind · Skillet

EXERCISE 22 OF 43
Groove M -- Part M
69 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART F
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesCIFMP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ash in the Wind on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-31, snare through bars 32-39, hi-hat through bars 40-59, snare through bars 60-65 and silence through bars 66-69, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 8-10 and 24-26, and 5 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-----x-----|
BD |x-------x-------|
Ash in the Wind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 7, 27, 31, 35, 37 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, I -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-31 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-21 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 18-43 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 48-66 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-83 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ash in the Wind?

110 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 Ash in the Wind hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Ash in the Wind?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 3, 7, 27, 31, 35, 37 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED