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Baldpate Driver · Fleshwater

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove C -- Part C
0 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART S
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AE
PART AH
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDSBCAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Baldpate Driver on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
44/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-34, snare through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-58, snare through bars 59-72 and ride through bars 73-90, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 19 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
Baldpate Driver -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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, B, D -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 62-83 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AE -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 97-120 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Baldpate Driver?

130 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 Baldpate Driver hard to play on drums?

44 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 1 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 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 Baldpate Driver?

1 fill to learn, played 8 times: bars 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 128 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED