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Kick Stones · Westside Cowboy

Kick Stones · Westside Cowboy
EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBEGS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Kick Stones on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-136.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-56, 58-68 and 70-72, and 2 more places -- 78% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
Kick Stones -- 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 15 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 73-117 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 115-132 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Kick Stones?

138 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 Kick Stones hard to play on drums?

60 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED