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Deal · Grateful Dead

EXERCISE 32 OF 39
Groove G -- Part G
145 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART D
PART G
PART F
OUTRO
7 groovesBFDCG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deal on drums

162 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, snare through bars 16-25, hi-hat through bars 26-57, snare through bars 58-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-132, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-15, 26-30 and 36-51, and 5 more places -- 53.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x---------x-|
Deal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 52, 56, 70, 133, 134, 135 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-39 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 52-138 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 59-107 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deal?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Deal hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Deal?

2 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 52, 56, 70, 133, 134, 135 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED