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Desert Song · Michael Schenker Group

Desert Song · Michael Schenker Group
EXERCISE 1 OF 30
Groove I -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesIEAND+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desert Song on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 5:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
5:45
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, silence through bars 11-12 and kick and crashes through bars 13-14, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-56, 74-80 and 99-105, and 1 more place -- 37.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    50               51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |--------------x-|------x-----x-x-|
HH |------x---x-----|--x-----x-------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-----------|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|------x---x-x-x-|
Desert Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 45, 61, 69, 82 and 135.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- I, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-83 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 77-94 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Desert Song?

124 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 Desert Song hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 5:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Desert Song?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 37, 45, 61, 69, 82 and 135.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED