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Gasoline · Story Of The Year

EXERCISE 18 OF 44
Fill at bar 32, 82 and 102
74 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART T, OUTRO
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART F
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART T
PART S14
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFGLTS14+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gasoline on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
38/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, snare through bars 19-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-28, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 11 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Gasoline -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 37, 48 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- G, F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-110 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-57 -- 10 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 57-73 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-97 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Gasoline?

154 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?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 7 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Gasoline?

10 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 16, 24, 32, 36, 37, 48 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED