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On The Beach · Neil Young

EXERCISE 13 OF 43
Groove K -- Part K
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PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
PART I
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesGFIBH+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 9
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On The Beach on drums

203 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
7:04
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-48, ride through bars 49-52, hi-hat through bars 53-195 and ride through bars 196-203.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 65 more places -- 34.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|
On The Beach -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 160.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- F, G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-44 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-196 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 51-63 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 60-90 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 87-154 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 154-190 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is On The Beach?

115 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 On The Beach 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 7:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 On The Beach?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 160.

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