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Hitch A Ride · Boston

EXERCISE 28 OF 67
Run N1 · Part N (bars 27-41)
65 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 67 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART N
PART S
PART D
PART AD
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAGDNSS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hitch A Ride on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 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
114
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-34, ride through bars 35-50, hi-hat through bars 51-54 and silence through bars 55-57, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 78, 82 and 86, and 8 more places -- 11% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    78
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x---x-|
Hitch A Ride -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- AG -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-27 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Break and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Break and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 27-54 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Hitch A Ride?

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 Hitch A Ride hard to play on drums?

58 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Hitch A Ride?

18 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED