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Eastside · Good Kid

EXERCISE 12 OF 27
Join Part E to Chorus 2 (bars 27-29)
48 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBEKIJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eastside on drums

72 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 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
72
LENGTH
1:36
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-44, kick and crashes through bars 45-50 and snare through bars 51-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-11, 13-20 and 29-44 -- 46.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Eastside -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 48, 64 and 71.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 4-29 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 51-57 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Eastside?

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 Eastside hard to play on drums?

57 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 1:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Eastside?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 48, 64 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED