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Goin' Out West · Tom Waits

Goin' Out West · Tom Waits
EXERCISE 11 OF 21
Groove K
82 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART H
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
5 groovesEHS1DFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Goin' Out West on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-11, toms through bars 12-21, hi-hat through bars 22-46, toms through bars 47-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-90, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-46, 81 and 83, and 3 more places -- 38.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- H, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-91 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-50 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 79-91 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Goin' Out West?

132 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 Goin' Out West hard to play on drums?

47 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED