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Gasoline · I Prevail

EXERCISE 23 OF 38
Join Chorus to Part C (bars 37-39)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART C
PART B
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
PART C
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART B
OUTRO
8 groovesDBCLR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gasoline on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 2:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
2:28
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-11, hi-hat through bars 12-20, snare through bars 21-41, hi-hat through bars 42-50 and toms through bars 51-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 27-29 and 31-33, and 4 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x----x-|
Gasoline -- 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, 11, 30, 34, 40, 41 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, H -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 13-35 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-51 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 45-71 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gasoline?

136 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 Gasoline hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 2:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Gasoline?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 10, 11, 30, 34, 40, 41 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED