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Deep in the Willow · Knocked Loose

EXERCISE 27 OF 56
Groove Y
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AC
PART AG
CHORUS 4
PART T
OUTRO
9 groovesCTIAGAC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Deep in the Willow on drums

123 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-13, ride through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-22, snare through bars 23-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-33, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-11, 35-36 and 67-69, and 3 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|----------------|
HH |----------------|----------x-----|
SD |--------x-------|fx-x----x-------|
T1 |----------------|----f-----------|
T2 |----------------|-----x-x--------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|----------x-----|
Deep in the Willow -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C, V -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-45 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part T -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 52-58 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Deep in the Willow?

128 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 Deep in the Willow hard to play on drums?

55 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Deep in the Willow?

12 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED