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Evil Ways 1 · Santana

EXERCISE 23 OF 49
Groove K -- Part K
88 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGFQRK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Evil Ways 1 on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

62 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
117
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
62/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-20, ride through bars 21-25, hi-hat through bars 26-65, snare through bars 66-71 and hi-hat through bars 72-86, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 39-43 and 45-61, and 3 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|
Evil Ways 1 -- 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 1, 7, 70, 71, 84 and 85.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-10 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 18-62 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-72 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Evil Ways 1?

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 Evil Ways 1 hard to play on drums?

62 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Evil Ways 1?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 7, 70, 71, 84 and 85.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED