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Over The Hills And Far Away · Gary Moore

EXERCISE 3 OF 35
Groove A -- Part A
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0 / 35 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART L
OUTRO
BREAK
7 groovesS10CHAL+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Over The Hills And Far Away on drums

81 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 5:09 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
5:09
DIFFICULTY
68/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-25, ride through bars 26-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 22-24 and 47-49 -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |-gxxxgxgxxxxxgxxxgxgxxxx|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-x---x-----x-x-xx|
Over The Hills And Far Away -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 5-22 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-47 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 37-51 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Over The Hills And Far Away?

94 BPM, in 6/4, 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 The Hills And Far Away hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 The Hills And Far Away?

6 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED