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Stealin' · Uriah Heep

EXERCISE 5 OF 38
Groove B
78 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT
PART A
PART D
PART F
PART I
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
10 groovesCFAIP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stealin' on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-44, snare through bars 45-48, hi-hat through bars 49-108 and snare through bars 109-112, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 27 and 53, and 16 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    62
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--x--------x--x-----x--|
Stealin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 40, 48, 60, 77, 78 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-52 -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 42-52 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-64 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Stealin'?

116 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Stealin' hard to play on drums?

60 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Stealin'?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 40, 48, 60, 77, 78 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED