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Red Baron · Billy Cobham

Red Baron · Billy Cobham
EXERCISE 15 OF 53
Groove L
104 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART S
PART W
PART C
PART I
OUTRO
8 groovesACMDS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Baron on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 6:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
6:22
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32, toms through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-97, toms through bars 98-99, hi-hat through bars 100-107 and snare through bars 108-110, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-15, 39 and 41, and 8 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    112
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------x---------------x-----------------------|
Red Baron -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 70, 74, 82 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-91 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Red Baron?

88 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 Red Baron hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 6:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 17 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Red Baron?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 70, 74, 82 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED