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Old · Machine Head

EXERCISE 1 OF 64
Groove L -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART V
PART Z
PART Q
PART V
PART X
PART AL
OUTRO 2
12 groovesLXVALAX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 1
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Old on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
86/100

snare through bar 1, toms through bars 2-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, ride through bars 33-36, hi-hat through bars 37-56 and ride through bars 57-60, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 9.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-------x---------------------------------------x---------------|
HH |----------------o-------o---o---o---o---o---------------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x-----------x---|
BD |x-------x---------------x---------------x---x-------------------|
Old -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part V and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part X and Part Z -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Old?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Old hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Old?

11 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED