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Over My Head Cable Car · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 5 OF 52
Fill at bar 86, 96 and 98 (a small one)
41 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
CHORUS
PART C
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART D
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIRAMS9+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Over My Head Cable Car on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-18, snare through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-76, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 33-34, and 6 more places -- 25.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Over My Head Cable Car -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 26, 42, 46 and 11 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 -- I, R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 31-43 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-59 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-65 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Over My Head Cable Car?

130 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 Over My Head Cable Car hard to play on drums?

51 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:08 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, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Over My Head Cable Car?

10 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 17, 18, 22, 26, 42, 46 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED