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Out On The Tiles · Blind Melon

EXERCISE 16 OF 35
Groove M
41 / 77 BARS COVERED
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CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDNPFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Out On The Tiles on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
57/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-23, ride through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-48, ride through bars 49-60 and toms through bars 61-62, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 23, 28-31 and 53, and 1 more place -- 13% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28               29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |-x---x---x---x--|----------------|
SD |x---x---x---x---|----------------|
FT |----------------|xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
BD |-x---x---x---x--|x---x---x---x---|
Out On The Tiles -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 39 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- N, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-49 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 1-38 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-49 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Out On The Tiles?

95 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 On The Tiles hard to play on drums?

57 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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.

How many fills are in Out On The Tiles?

9 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 8 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED