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By My Side · 3 Doors Down

EXERCISE 10 OF 45
Groove D
60 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART J
PART Q
PART U
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAJMQUFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play By My Side on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 49-55, and 3 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 48, 56 and 4 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M, A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-57 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is By My Side?

140 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 By My Side hard to play on drums?

61 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 By My Side?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28, 48, 56 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED