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By My Side · Interrupters

By My Side · Interrupters
EXERCISE 27 OF 30
Groove O -- Part O
90 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART H
PART O
9 groovesFIHS2O+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play By My Side on drums

108 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:24 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
2:24
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and kick and crashes through bars 53-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16-17 and 20-27, and 3 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
By My Side -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 32, 36, 56 and 5 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 -- F, H -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-46 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-73 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is By My Side?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is By My Side hard to play on drums?

45 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 2:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 By My Side?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 8, 12, 28, 32, 36, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED