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Outlander · Jinjer

EXERCISE 16 OF 62
Chorus into Part I with the record (bars 14-21)
82 / 141 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART I
CHORUS
PART I
PART L
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesFILADA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Outlander on drums

141 bars of 4/4 at 146 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
146 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
141
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
87/100

ride through bars 2-8, snare through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-38, snare through bars 39-41, hi-hat through bars 42-63 and snare through bars 64-141.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 70-73 and 75-76, and 7 more places -- 19.4% 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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    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Outlander -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 25, 37, 50 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-16 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Outlander?

146 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Outlander hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

141 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 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 Outlander?

12 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 16, 17, 25, 37, 50 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 141 BARS ANALYSED