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Desire · Gary Hoey

Desire · Gary Hoey
EXERCISE 12 OF 25
Groove H
57 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesDS3LFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desire on drums

101 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 190 BPM, 3:09 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
190 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-51, ride through bars 52-69 and silence through bars 70-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 10-16 and 18-19, and 6 more places -- 53.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-------x---x-------|
Desire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 17, 20, 30, 38, 41 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Desire?

190 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Desire 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 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 Desire?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 17, 20, 30, 38, 41 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED