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Country House · Blur

EXERCISE 12 OF 25
Join Verse 2 to Chorus 3 (bars 40-42)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
VERSE 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
VERSE 3
3 groovesFBKFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Country House on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-22, 34-40 and 61-67, and 3 more places -- 43.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Country House -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 13, 31, 60, 68 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-37 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 38-61 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Verse 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Country House?

88 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 Country House hard to play on drums?

60 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Country House?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 13, 31, 60, 68 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED