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Right Side Of My Neck · Faye Webster

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Outro 2
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Right Side Of My Neck on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 2:31 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-47, snare through bars 48-49, hi-hat through bars 50-72 and snare through bars 73-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 30 more places -- 45.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
Right Side Of My Neck -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 49, 65, 73 and 74.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Right Side Of My Neck?

117 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 Right Side Of My Neck hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 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 Right Side Of My Neck?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 49, 65, 73 and 74.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED