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Eatin' Dust · Fu Manchu

Eatin' Dust · Fu Manchu
EXERCISE 10 OF 48
Fill at bar 19 (a small one)
37 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART N
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBGNOL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Eatin' Dust on drums

71 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:05 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
69/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-40, snare through bars 41-47, hi-hat through bars 48-55, snare through bars 56-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 8 and 10, and 5 more places -- 11.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x--x---x-x-x-xx-|
HF |x---------------|
Eatin' Dust -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 19, 39, 43, 47, 51 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-30 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Eatin' Dust?

92 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 Eatin' Dust hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 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 Eatin' Dust?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 11, 19, 39, 43, 47, 51 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED