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High Road Easy · Sass Jordan

High Road Easy · Sass Jordan
EXERCISE 3 OF 42
Groove C
25 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHFDAN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play High Road Easy on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34, snare through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-70 and snare through bars 71-72, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-20, 38-39 and 42, and 4 more places -- 14.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |------------x---|
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--xx-----|
High Road Easy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 15, 22, 23, 27, 34 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 7-16 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-41 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-64 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 62-74 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is High Road Easy?

88 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 High Road Easy hard to play on drums?

56 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 High Road Easy?

9 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 8, 15, 22, 23, 27, 34 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED