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Ride Like The Wind · Christopher Cross

EXERCISE 2 OF 48
Groove B -- Part B
40 / 139 BARS COVERED
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PART B
PART B
PART B
PART F
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDHBFG+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ride Like The Wind on drums

139 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:38
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 2-55, snare through bars 56-60, hi-hat through bars 61-63, toms through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-105 and snare through bars 106-110, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-20, 66-80 and 86-90, and 2 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Ride Like The Wind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 126, 127, 128 and 129.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-19 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 16-26 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-38 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 29-55 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 54-64 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Ride Like The Wind?

120 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 Like The Wind hard to play on drums?

60 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Ride Like The Wind?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 126, 127, 128 and 129.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED