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Sailing · Rod Stewart

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
4 groovesCAS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sailing on drums

61 bars, 3:47, at 64 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
64 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
25/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-11 and snare through bars 12-61.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-28, 30-36 and 38-51, and 1 more place -- 78.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 61.

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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 37-61 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sailing?

64 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Sailing hard to play on drums?

25 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, 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 Sailing?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 29 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED