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Dragged by a Truck · Sanguisugabogg

EXERCISE 11 OF 54
Groove G
43 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFEBACV+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dragged by a Truck on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
90/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and ride through bars 42-49, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-17, 26 and 28, and 3 more places -- 24.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Dragged by a Truck -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 23, 25, 33, 37 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dragged by a Truck?

150 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dragged by a Truck hard to play on drums?

90 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 85 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 15 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 Dragged by a Truck?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 5, 9, 23, 25, 33, 37 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED