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Side · Travis
EXERCISE 14 OF 15
Run F1 · Outro 2 (bars 53-83)
83 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 31 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesDFAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Side on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
39/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-21, 23-41 and 43-46 -- 48.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Side -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 42 and 62.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-47 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 45-62 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Side?

92 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 Side hard to play on drums?

39 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Side?

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 22, 42 and 62.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED