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I Talk To The Wind · King Crimson

EXERCISE 29 OF 49
Groove AA
83 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Z
PART D
PART L
PART G
PART S
PART Z
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesFGDZL+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Talk To The Wind on drums

126 bars, 6:43, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
52/100

ride through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-30, ride through bars 31-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-88 and hi-hat through bars 89-92, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14, 16-17 and 32-36, and 2 more places -- 15.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32               33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------xxx-|
BD |x------xx-x--xx-|x------xx-x-----|
HF |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
I Talk To The Wind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- G, Z -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-108 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-42 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-59 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part Z and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Talk To The Wind?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is I Talk To The Wind hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED