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Long Train Running · Dooby Brothers

Long Train Running · Dooby Brothers
EXERCISE 8 OF 50
Fill at bar 15, 27 and 55 (a small one)
48 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART P
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDICYP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Long Train Running on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 3:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-80, silence through bars 81-85 and ride through bars 86-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 17-18, and 10 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x---x-|
Long Train Running -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 15, 21, 27, 37, 43 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- D, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-71 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Long Train Running?

117 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 Train Running hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

How many fills are in Long Train Running?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 15, 21, 27, 37, 43 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED