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Horses · Slomosa

Horses · Slomosa
EXERCISE 38 OF 40
Run A2 · Outro (bars 147-156)
167 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART S8
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCS8AHDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Horses on drums

172 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:34 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:34
DIFFICULTY
39/100

snare through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-54, hi-hat through bars 55-61, snare through bars 62-76 and toms through bars 77-79, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 7, and 58 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 36, 57, 61 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- A, C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-53 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-57 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 61-100 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 104-132 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 131-156 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Horses?

150 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 Horses hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Horses?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 20, 24, 36, 57, 61 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED