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Out Of Touch · Hall And Oates

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 13 PASSED · 79 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesBAS3S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Out Of Touch on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
120
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
50/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-18, 20-33 and 35, and 17 more places -- 66.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 34 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-35 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Out Of Touch?

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 Out Of Touch hard to play on drums?

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Out Of Touch?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 34 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED