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So Far Away · Crossfade
EXERCISE 16 OF 46
4-bar fill at bar 29
49 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
PART G
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHQJLG+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Far Away on drums

90 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-7, toms through bars 8-10, hi-hat through bars 11-21, snare through bars 22-30 and toms through bars 31-33, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 15 more places -- 24.4% 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
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |x--x-x---x-x--x-|
So Far Away -- 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 7, 8, 9, 21, 29, 30 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- G, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-27 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-43 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 51-58 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is So Far Away?

103 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 So Far Away hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 So Far Away?

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 21, 29, 30 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED