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stack · Goose (GTS)

EXERCISE 20 OF 25
Groove R -- Part R
74 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART A
PART C
PART F
PART I
PART C
PART R
CHORUS
OUTRO
8 groovesTCIAF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play stack on drums

83 bars, 7:13, at 46 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
46 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
65/100

hi-hat through bars 1-41, silence through bars 42-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 50-65 and 68-83 -- 41% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    50                                                               51
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o-------o-------o---------------o-------o-------o---------------|o-------o-------o---------------o-------o-------o---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-------------------------------f-------x-------|
BD |x-------x---------------x-------x-------x---x-----------x-------|x-------x---------------x-------x-----------x-------------------|
stack -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 29.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- T -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C, A -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-18 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-42 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part R and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is stack?

46 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is stack hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 stack?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 28 and 29.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED