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El Caminos In The West · Grandaddy

EXERCISE 29 OF 38
Fill at bar 54 (a small one)
89 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
PART H
PART G
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAGEHD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play El Caminos In The West on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-35, ride through bars 36-40, hi-hat through bars 41-75, ride through bars 76-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-9, 15 and 17-18, and 6 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-x-|----x-------x--x|
BD |x-------x-x-----|--x-----x-x-----|
El Caminos In The West -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 24, 25, 30, 38, 44 and 6 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 -- A, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-22 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-77 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is El Caminos In The West?

120 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 El Caminos In The West hard to play on drums?

54 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 El Caminos In The West?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 24, 25, 30, 38, 44 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED