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Speedway · Morrissey

Speedway · Morrissey
EXERCISE 14 OF 26
Fill at bar 72 (a small one)
100 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 26 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAEMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Speedway on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
40/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72, snare through bars 73-82 and toms through bars 83-87, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-16, and 5 more places -- 43.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 48, 72, 79, 83 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 101-108 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Speedway?

120 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 Speedway hard to play on drums?

40 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Speedway?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 48, 72, 79, 83 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED