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Drag Me · From Ashes To New

EXERCISE 29 OF 39
Groove R -- Part R
63 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART Q
PART R
OUTRO
8 groovesBOHRE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drag Me on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 99 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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
99 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-38 and snare through bars 39-40, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-4, 19 and 21, and 8 more places -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------x--x--x--|
Drag Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 38, 56, 57, 58, 68 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-35 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Q -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drag Me?

99 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 Drag Me 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?

76 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Drag Me?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 26, 38, 56, 57, 58, 68 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED