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Loyalty · American Head Charge

Loyalty · American Head Charge
EXERCISE 10 OF 20
Fill at bar 29
51 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
PART D
PART B
BREAK
PART D
PART B
OUTRO 2
6 groovesS9DBS4F+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Loyalty on drums

102 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 185 BPM, 3:17 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
41/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, toms through bars 9-29, snare through bars 30-37, silence through bars 38-45 and toms through bars 46-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-28 and 46-52 -- 44.8% 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+a5e+a6e+a
SD |------------x-----------|
FT |g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-g-|
BD |x-----------------------|
HF |------x-----------x-----|
Loyalty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 29.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 10-62 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Loyalty?

185 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Loyalty hard to play on drums?

41 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Loyalty?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 9 and 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED