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Distant Early Warning · Rush

EXERCISE 9 OF 78
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
69 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART AA
PART AI
PART AU
PART AX
13 groovesCOAXAAAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Distant Early Warning on drums

179 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 3-90, snare through bars 91-94, ride through bars 95-121, toms through bars 122-130, ride through bars 131-137 and snare through bars 138-139, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 14 more places -- 19.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |--------x-------|
Distant Early Warning -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 22, 46, 48, 50, 66 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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, O -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AX -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Distant Early Warning?

144 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 Distant Early Warning hard to play on drums?

56 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 21 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Distant Early Warning?

13 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 21, 22, 46, 48, 50, 66 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED