ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Race To The Sea on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 92 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 89
LENGTH: 3:41
DIFFICULTY: 72/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-11, snare through bars 12-15, ride through bars 16-24, hi-hat through bars 25-32 and snare through bars 33-36, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 16-18, 20-22 and 37-39, and 3 more places -- 20.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    16                               17
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------------------------------|------------------------|
RD |----x---x---x-x-x---x---x---x-x-|x---x---x---x-x-x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x-----------x-x-|
BD |x---------------x---------------|x---------------x-------|

Race To The Sea -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 15, 23, 24 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part H and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Bars 16-49 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
Through the Chorus 3 and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 4 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Race To The Sea?

92 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 Race To The Sea hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

89 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Race To The Sea?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 15, 23, 24 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED