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Red Hill Mining Town - accurate · U2

EXERCISE 4 OF 12
Groove C
128 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 12 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART B
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red Hill Mining Town - accurate on drums

163 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-163.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-46, 52-56 and 77-86, and 2 more places -- 51.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Red Hill Mining Town - accurate -- 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 11 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 -- D, B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Red Hill Mining Town - accurate?

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 Red Hill Mining Town - accurate hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED