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Dear My Songs · Over Arm Throw

Dear My Songs · Over Arm Throw
EXERCISE 10 OF 58
Run K1 · Part K (bars 13-26)
52 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART S2
PART K
PART M
PART O
PART V
CHORUS
PART AE
PART V
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesAAAOVMK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear My Songs on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 6:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
6:40
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-8, ride through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-29, toms through bars 30-34 and ride through bars 35-37, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 59-65, 67-71 and 103-107 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    60               61
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|x-------x-------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|----o-o-----o-o-|
SD |----x----x--x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--xx--xx--x-|x--x--x-x--x--x-|
Dear My Songs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- AA, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part K and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part M and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-50 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-61 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dear My Songs?

78 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 Dear My Songs hard to play on drums?

63 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?

130 bars, about 6:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Dear My Songs?

13 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED