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Sister Christian · Night Ranger

EXERCISE 38 OF 47
Join Part P to Outro (bars 63-65)
73 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIBPCD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sister Christian on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
34/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, toms through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-79 and toms through bars 80-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-21, 23-27 and 49-55 -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 16, 22, 38, 40, 41 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- I, C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-40 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 13-39 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-64 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-77 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sister Christian?

90 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 Sister Christian 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sister Christian?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 14, 16, 22, 38, 40, 41 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED