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Chasing The Drums (AI) · Yussef Dayes

Chasing The Drums (AI) · Yussef Dayes
EXERCISE 19 OF 49
Run L1 · Part L (bars 56-60)
102 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART C
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART C
PART AA
PART S18
15 groovesHCS18AAAB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Chasing The Drums (AI) on drums

187 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 5:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
5:35
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-70, silence through bars 71-75, hi-hat through bars 76-120, silence through bars 121-126 and hi-hat through bars 127-142, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-36, 38-45 and 47-48, and 8 more places -- 31.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |----------x---x-|
BD |x--x--------x---|
Chasing The Drums (AI) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 25, 85, 86, 87, 103 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-106 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Chasing The Drums (AI)?

134 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 Chasing The Drums (AI) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 5:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Chasing The Drums (AI)?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 25, 85, 86, 87, 103 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED