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Dry County · Bon Jovi

EXERCISE 15 OF 91
Join Part C to Chorus (bars 13-15)
90 / 206 BARS COVERED
0 / 91 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART A
PART AA
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
13 groovesFAAACAH+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 24
LAND · 24
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 9
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dry County on drums

206 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 10:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
206
LENGTH
10:18
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-6, kick and crashes through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35 and ride through bars 36-41, and 17 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 29-31, and 14 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

24 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 35 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 66 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 -- F, AA -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 11-25 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 23-37 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part A -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 92-107 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dry County?

80 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 Dry County hard to play on drums?

41 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

206 bars, about 10:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 66 exercises over 14 sittings, about 29 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 Dry County?

24 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 35 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 206 BARS ANALYSED