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One Rode To Asa Bay · Bathory

EXERCISE 26 OF 46
Join Part L to Chorus (bars 124-126)
261 / 290 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS
PART D
PART E
PART L
PART L
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
9 groovesIDELS2+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play One Rode To Asa Bay on drums

290 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 9:14 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
290
LENGTH
9:14
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-17, hi-hat through bars 18-23, snare through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-31, snare through bars 32-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-37, and 16 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-23, 26-31 and 34-37, and 63 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-------------x-|
One Rode To Asa Bay -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 25, 33, 69, 73, 89, 97 and 19 more.

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 -- D, I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 122-217 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 126-257 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is One Rode To Asa Bay?

125 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 One Rode To Asa Bay hard to play on drums?

42 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

290 bars, about 9:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in One Rode To Asa Bay?

4 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 25, 33, 69, 73, 89, 97 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 290 BARS ANALYSED