ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Indians on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 118 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 149
LENGTH: 4:57
DIFFICULTY: 69/100

snare through bars 3-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41, snare through bars 42-43, hi-hat through bars 44-50, snare through bars 51-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-89, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-37, 39-41 and 44-46, and 5 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35                                               36
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------------------------------|------------------x-----------------------------|
HH |------------------------o-----o-----o-----o-----|o-----o-----o-----------------o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------x-----------------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x--x--x-----------------|x-----------------------------x-----x-----x-----|

Indians -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 141.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J, U -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through Part L and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Bars 48-111 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through Part Z -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
Through Part Z and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
and 1 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Indians?

118 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 Indians hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

149 bars, about 4:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Indians?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 141.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED