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Pass The Dutchie · Musical Youth

Pass The Dutchie · Musical Youth
EXERCISE 5 OF 8
Groove E
55 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
2 groovesAS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Pass The Dutchie on drums

60 bars, 3:12, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-46, silence through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-60.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5 and 10-15, and 4 more places -- 79.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-60 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Pass The Dutchie?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Pass The Dutchie hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 4 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED