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Ride · Lana Del Rey

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove E -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesECS4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, silence through bars 29-44, toms through bars 45-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 9 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13               14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x---x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x-----|x-x-----x-------|
Ride -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 52.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- E, C -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 9-29 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ride?

95 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 Ride hard to play on drums?

38 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Ride?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 12 and 52.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED