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Hickory Creek · Whitechapel

EXERCISE 22 OF 65
Groove L
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COUNT-IN
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART Q
PART AI
11 groovesGOS1AIQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hickory Creek on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 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
129
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-15, ride through bars 16-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-31, hi-hat through bars 32-40, ride through bars 41-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-48, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 53-55, 57 and 59, and 10 more places -- 14% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    53
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|
Hickory Creek -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 32, 40, 44, 56, 60, 64 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 23-37 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-73 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 34-59 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-77 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hickory Creek?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Hickory Creek hard to play on drums?

60 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hickory Creek?

15 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 32, 40, 44, 56, 60, 64 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED