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Long Drives (Drum Tab) · BoyWithUke

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 11 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesACS5S3S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Long Drives (Drum Tab) on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:09 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
34/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37, silence through bars 38-45, snare through bars 46-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-12 and 30-37, and 1 more place -- 58.3% 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-----|
Long Drives (Drum Tab) -- 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 10 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, C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Bars 13-54 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Long Drives (Drum Tab)?

130 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 Long Drives (Drum Tab) hard to play on drums?

34 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED