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Keep Away · Godsmack

EXERCISE 29 OF 50
9-bar fill at bar 60
82 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART AD
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHMANDAD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Keep Away on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-28, ride through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-52, ride through bars 53-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-77, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 14-19, 22-27 and 38-43, and 3 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14               15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-o-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x----x-x|-xx-----x-------|
HF |----------------|----x-----------|
Keep Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 28, 32, 36, 51 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Keep Away?

98 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 Keep Away hard to play on drums?

63 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?

119 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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.

How many fills are in Keep Away?

11 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 10, 12, 28, 32, 36, 51 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED