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On The Hunt · Lynyrd Skynyrd

EXERCISE 17 OF 52
Join Part G to Part I (bars 15-17)
61 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, PART I
CHORUS
PART G
PART I
PART G
PART N
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEGAAINFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On The Hunt on drums

84 bars, 5:20, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
5:20
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36 and ride through bars 37-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-31 and 57-63 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x------x--x---x-x-----x---x---x-|
On The Hunt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 18 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-75 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-25 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 21-36 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-53 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is On The Hunt?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is On The Hunt hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 5:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 On The Hunt?

15 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 18 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED