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Living In The Past · Jethro Tull

EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 20 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesFS7JBD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Living In The Past on drums

91 bars of 5/4 -- not four -- at 151 BPM, 3:01 of playing on ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time.

TEMPO
151 BPM
TIME
5/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
68/100

hi-hat through bars 3-11, ride through bars 12-36, hi-hat through bars 37-50, ride through bars 51-70, hi-hat through bars 71-73 and silence through bars 74-91.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-27 and 29-31, and 6 more places -- 43.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a
RD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
SD |x-----x-----x---x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-----|
Living In The Past -- 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 19 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-51 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-74 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Living In The Past?

151 BPM, in 5/4, 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 Living In The Past hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the speed of the hand keeping time. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED