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Cut Your Hair · Pavement

EXERCISE 9 OF 20
Run D1 · Chorus (bars 15-19)
66 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART B
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDCBES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cut Your Hair on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
42/100

ride through bars 2-7, snare through bars 8-13, ride through bars 14-25, snare through bars 26-31, ride through bars 32-46 and snare through bars 47-49, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-7, 14 and 20-25, and 6 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|
RD |x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Cut Your Hair -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-56 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 42-68 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cut Your Hair?

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 Cut Your Hair hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Cut Your Hair?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 and 55.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED