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Drink In My Hand · Eric Church

Drink In My Hand · Eric Church
EXERCISE 4 OF 24
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 16-18)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
4 groovesACENFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drink In My Hand on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 114 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
114 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-16, 22-28 and 33-52, and 3 more places -- 66.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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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-----|
Drink In My Hand -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-22 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 27-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drink In My Hand?

114 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 Drink In My Hand hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Drink In My Hand?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED