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Come Sail Away · Styx

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove X -- Outro 2
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0 / 51 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART A, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART B
PART L
CHORUS
PART A
PART AE
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXABAEL+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come Sail Away on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 5:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
5:47
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-38, snare through bars 39-40, toms through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-76 and ride through bars 77-79, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67, 72 and 74, and 9 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    131
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------x-------|
HH |o---o-------o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-x-|
Come Sail Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- X -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-53 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-132 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Come Sail Away?

114 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 Come Sail Away hard to play on drums?

49 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Come Sail Away?

13 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED