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Driving in Style (better) · Thundermother

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 38 PASSED · 78 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART S7
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEFGNA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Driving in Style (better) on drums

165 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, toms through bars 33-39, snare through bars 40-56, hi-hat through bars 57-80, toms through bars 81-88 and snare through bars 89-91, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 34 more places -- 48.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Driving in Style (better) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 8-34 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-123 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 81-110 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 110-127 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Driving in Style (better)?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Driving in Style (better) hard to play on drums?

50 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Driving in Style (better)?

5 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED