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Little Bones · Tragically Hip

EXERCISE 4 OF 20
Fill at bar 41, 49, 89 and 3 more (a small one)
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0 / 20 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFLS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Little Bones on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:42 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:42
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-112, silence through bars 113-114, snare through bars 115-146 and ride through bars 147-171.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-40, 42-48 and 50-57, and 4 more places -- 51.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 49, 89, 138, 162 and 170.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 59-113 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Little Bones?

145 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 Little Bones hard to play on drums?

50 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Little Bones?

1 fill to learn, played 6 times: bars 41, 49, 89, 138, 162 and 170.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED