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Great Southern Land · Icehouse

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 9 PASSED · 126 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Great Southern Land on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 5:16 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

45 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
158
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-137, silence through bars 138-140 and hi-hat through bars 141-158.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-34 and 36, and 16 more places -- 85.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Great Southern Land -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 158.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Great Southern Land?

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 Great Southern Land hard to play on drums?

45 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Great Southern Land?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 158.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED