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Staying On My Mind · PACMAR

EXERCISE 1 OF 33
Groove H -- Outro
0 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDIASH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Staying On My Mind on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-78.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 9 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
FT |x-x---x---------|
BD |x---xx--x---x---|
Staying On My Mind -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 13, 25, 34, 35, 36 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- H, I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-30 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 29-61 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Staying On My Mind?

86 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 Staying On My Mind hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Staying On My Mind?

3 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 13, 25, 34, 35, 36 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED