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Canoeing Down The River · Alternative Competition 2

EXERCISE 12 OF 36
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
66 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART A
PART B
PART D
PART G
PART I
PART K
BREAK
OUTRO
8 groovesMAGKB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Canoeing Down The River on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-15, hi-hat through bars 16-32, snare through bars 33-47, hi-hat through bars 48-72, silence through bars 73-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-96, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 57-63 and 65-71 -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--xx---x--xx---|
Canoeing Down The River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 32, 36 and 96.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- K -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 12 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-25 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-33 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part D and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Canoeing Down The River?

120 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 Canoeing Down The River hard to play on drums?

54 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 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 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 Canoeing Down The River?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 32, 36 and 96.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED