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Left It In The River · Jamie MacDonald

Left It In The River · Jamie MacDonald
EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 70 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
BREAK
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART I
OUTRO
7 groovesCAGIS2+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Left It In The River on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
39/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-14, hi-hat through bars 15-46, silence through bars 47-50, snare through bars 51-54 and silence through bars 55-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 19-21 and 23, and 11 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Left It In The River -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 22, 34, 38, 42, 58 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- C, A -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-27 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-47 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 51-70 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Left It In The River?

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 Left It In The River 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Left It In The River?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 22, 34, 38, 42, 58 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED