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October All Over · Unwound

EXERCISE 19 OF 21
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 125-127)
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBEDGF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play October All Over on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, ride through bars 27-30, hi-hat through bars 31-54, ride through bars 55-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-106, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-13, 15-17 and 19-21, and 13 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
October All Over -- 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 20 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-90 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 105-128 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is October All Over?

120 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 October All Over hard to play on drums?

46 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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