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Dashboard · Noah Kahan

EXERCISE 10 OF 28
Join Part A to Break 3 (bars 43-45)
65 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, BREAK 3
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART A
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesJAGS1S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dashboard on drums

108 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 88 BPM, 3:38 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
32/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-38, hi-hat through bars 39-75, snare through bars 76-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-99, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 60-62, 64-66 and 68-70, and 10 more places -- 34.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    60
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Dashboard -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 59, 73, 75, 79, 83 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- J, G -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 43-74 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dashboard?

88 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Dashboard hard to play on drums?

32 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Dashboard?

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 38, 59, 73, 75, 79, 83 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED