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Red · Sammy Hagar

Red · Sammy Hagar
EXERCISE 5 OF 64
Groove C -- Part C
27 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 22 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART C
PART I
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART P
PART N
PART AI
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
13 groovesBCVIAI+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 16
LINK · 7
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Red on drums

160 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-22, toms through bars 23-24, snare through bars 25-43, hi-hat through bars 44-56, snare through bars 57-79 and kick and crashes through bars 80-86, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-13, 26-31 and 62-67, and 1 more place -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 68, 80, 81, 82, 90 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-26 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-51 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 42-155 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Red?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Red hard to play on drums?

59 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 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?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 68, 80, 81, 82, 90 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED