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Run To The Father · Cody Carnes

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove D -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART H
BREAK
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDPHS5S6+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Run To The Father on drums

82 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 68 BPM, 3:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-33 and ride through bars 34-41, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-14, 18-24 and 26-32 -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Run To The Father -- 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 25, 33, 37, 50, 51, 52 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, H -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 30-42 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-66 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Run To The Father?

68 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Run To The Father hard to play on drums?

34 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Run To The Father?

6 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 25, 33, 37, 50, 51, 52 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED