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Father And Son · Cat Stevens

Father And Son · Cat Stevens
EXERCISE 4 OF 30
Groove B
23 / 61 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I, OUTRO
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEMS2IAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Father And Son on drums

61 bars, 3:33, at 67 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
67 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
38/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, silence through bars 5-19, snare through bars 20-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24, 27 and 34-35, and 3 more places -- 19.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x----x|
Father And Son -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 28, 29, 36, 40, 51 and 2 more.

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 -- E, C, M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 25-37 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-56 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Father And Son?

67 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Father And Son hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Father And Son?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 25, 28, 29, 36, 40, 51 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED