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By-Tor And The Snow Dog · Rush

EXERCISE 28 OF 81
Fill at bar 49 and 53 (a small one)
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0 / 81 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AC
PART AB
PART AI
PART AQ
11 groovesCAQABBAC+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play By-Tor And The Snow Dog on drums

178 bars at 158 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
158 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-11, hi-hat through bars 12-26, toms through bars 27-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-79, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-79, 85-87 and 97-98, and 3 more places -- 13.8% 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
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---g-|
By-Tor And The Snow Dog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 and 58 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- AB, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AB -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part AB and Part AC -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is By-Tor And The Snow Dog?

158 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-Tor And The Snow Dog 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 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 By-Tor And The Snow Dog?

19 fills to learn, played 64 times: bars 1, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10 and 58 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED