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Heavy Horses · Jethro Tull

EXERCISE 6 OF 101
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
52 / 270 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
BREAK 2
VERSE
PART AO
CHORUS 3
PART BY
PART S19
19 groovesNS4S6S19AN+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 4
JOIN · 18
LINK · 5
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Heavy Horses on drums

270 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 8:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
270
LENGTH
8:58
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 3-8, snare through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, silence through bars 33-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-73, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-25, 64-73 and 176-179, and 5 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Heavy Horses -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 27 and 44 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 78 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 -- N, AN -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-101 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 3 and Part X -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and the Break 4 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Heavy Horses?

116 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 Heavy Horses hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

270 bars, about 8:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 78 exercises over 22 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Heavy Horses?

22 fills to learn, played 50 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 27 and 44 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 270 BARS ANALYSED