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Reelin' In The Years · Steely Dan

EXERCISE 14 OF 28
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 33-35)
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PART B
PART D
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesGDBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Reelin' In The Years on drums

156 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 2-34, ride through bars 35-42, hi-hat through bars 43-51, ride through bars 52-97, snare through bars 98-99 and hi-hat through bars 100-108, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 52-92 and 94, and 3 more places -- 62.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Reelin' In The Years -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 93, 95, 97 and 99.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-54 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 51-109 -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Reelin' In The Years?

138 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 Reelin' In The Years hard to play on drums?

57 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Reelin' In The Years?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 93, 95, 97 and 99.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED