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On The Red River · Turnpike Troubadours

On The Red River · Turnpike Troubadours
EXERCISE 13 OF 21
Run I1 · Part I (bars 40-48)
56 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART I
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesS8CBHS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play On The Red River on drums

104 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 144 BPM, 4:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
24/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-70 and silence through bars 71-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-24 -- 23.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
On The Red River -- 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-63 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-65 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is On The Red River?

144 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Red River hard to play on drums?

24 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED