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Stand By Him · Ghost

EXERCISE 18 OF 35
Groove P -- Part P
102 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
PART A
CHORUS
PART P
PART Q
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGANQP+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stand By Him on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-36, ride through bars 37-55, hi-hat through bars 56-92 and ride through bars 93-125.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-42, 45-50 and 93-98, and 3 more places -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|x-------x-------|
RD |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
Stand By Him -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 22, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part P and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stand By Him?

130 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 Stand By Him hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Stand By Him?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 21, 22, 33, 34, 35, 36 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED