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Dust Bowl · ethel cain

EXERCISE 1 OF 18
Groove A -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesADS7S4S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dust Bowl on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
5:38
DIFFICULTY
27/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-33, hi-hat through bars 34-36, snare through bars 37-39, hi-hat through bars 40-42 and ride through bars 43-45, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-33, 37-39 and 49-51, and 4 more places -- 64.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|
Dust Bowl -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 40-77 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-81 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 80-94 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Dust Bowl?

86 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 Dust Bowl hard to play on drums?

27 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 3 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 5:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED