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Starting Over · LSD and the Search for God

Starting Over · LSD and the Search for God
EXERCISE 5 OF 39
Groove O -- Part O
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0 / 39 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART K
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART O
PART K
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesICOS1L+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Starting Over on drums

138 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 5:07 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
138
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-14, kick and crashes through bars 15-20, toms through bars 21-22, kick and crashes through bars 23-24 and toms through bars 25-26, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-37, 39-40 and 44-47, and 5 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    90
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Starting Over -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 49, 73, 89, 105 and 121.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- I, C -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-85 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 84-124 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Starting Over?

108 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 Starting Over hard to play on drums?

41 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

138 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Starting Over?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 33, 49, 73, 89, 105 and 121.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 138 BARS ANALYSED