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Chase, I Hardly Know Ya · Marietta

EXERCISE 11 OF 51
Fill at bar 24
58 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART AB
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGLPABAF+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chase, I Hardly Know Ya on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-38, snare through bars 39-58, hi-hat through bars 59-79, snare through bars 80-103 and hi-hat through bars 104-111, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39, 41 and 45, and 4 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    113
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |x--x--x-----|
BD |x---x---x---|
Chase, I Hardly Know Ya -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- P, AB -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chase, I Hardly Know Ya?

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 Chase, I Hardly Know Ya hard to play on drums?

52 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 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 Chase, I Hardly Know Ya?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 24, 36, 37, 38, 42, 43 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED