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"Danny Called Me A Cowboy King" | · HER LAST SIGHT

EXERCISE 19 OF 122
Groove C
47 / 168 BARS COVERED
0 / 122 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART F
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART AE
PART AK
CHORUS 3
PART AX
PART AT
OUTRO
15 groovesBFBMATL+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 31
LAND · 31
RUN · 4
JOIN · 15
LINK · 6
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Danny Called Me A Cowboy King" | on drums

168 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-19, hi-hat through bars 20-27, snare through bars 28-32, hi-hat through bars 33-35 and snare through bars 36-41, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 5 more places -- 7.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    45
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---x---x-------x---|
"Danny Called Me A Cowboy King" | -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

31 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 90 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-24 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-23 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-124 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 21 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Danny Called Me A Cowboy King" |?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is "Danny Called Me A Cowboy King" | hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 90 exercises over 29 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 "Danny Called Me A Cowboy King" |?

31 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 9, 13, 17, 18, 19 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED