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Stay Close To Me · Bad Brains

Stay Close To Me · Bad Brains
EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART D
OUTRO
4 groovesCDFS7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stay Close To Me on drums

88 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 2:30 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, toms through bars 19-26, hi-hat through bars 27-34, toms through bars 35-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-58, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-18, 27-34 and 43-58, and 1 more place -- 59.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |--------o---|
SD |xx--x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x---x-|
Stay Close To Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 1-30 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 55-67 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stay Close To Me?

120 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Stay Close To Me hard to play on drums?

47 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Stay Close To Me?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED