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Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident) · John Michael Montgomery

EXERCISE 9 OF 39
Groove F -- Outro 2
67 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, OUTRO 2
PART C
PART F
PART F
PART C
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCFHB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident) on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, snare through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-28 and hi-hat through bars 29-36, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 17-20 and 33-35, and 3 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, B -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-21 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-104 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 21-40 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-55 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-68 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 67-105 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)?

115 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 Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident) hard to play on drums?

61 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Sold (The Grundy County Auction Incident)?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 36, 57, 58, 59, 60 and 4 more.

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