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Liquor Run · Ruby Waters

Liquor Run · Ruby Waters
EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove A -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesAECGHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Liquor Run on drums

68 bars, 3:53, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
39/100

hi-hat through bars 1-52, ride through bars 53-56 and hi-hat through bars 57-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 1 more place -- 44.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Liquor Run -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 66 and 67.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-50 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-50 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-62 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Liquor Run?

70 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 Liquor Run 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Liquor Run?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 24, 66 and 67.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED