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Drift Away · Uncle Kraker

Drift Away · Uncle Kraker
EXERCISE 24 OF 28
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 71-73)
75 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesDCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drift Away on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 76 BPM, 4:06 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100

ride through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-18, ride through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-42, snare through bars 43-45 and toms through bars 46-48, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-15, 22-24 and 37-39, and 1 more place -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 32, 35, 52, 64, 67 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-73 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Drift Away?

76 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 Drift Away hard to play on drums?

54 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Drift Away?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 18, 32, 35, 52, 64, 67 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED