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Stone · Whiskey Myers

EXERCISE 5 OF 36
Fill at bar 68 and 86 (a small one)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBKLS7+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stone on drums

92 bars, 5:24, at 68 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
68 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
5:24
DIFFICULTY
34/100

ride through bars 3-8, silence through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-48, ride through bars 49-58, snare through bars 59-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-62, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 22 and 27-29, and 4 more places -- 36% 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+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------------|
Stone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 26, 30, 49, 50 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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, B, L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-69 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 51-78 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S7 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stone?

68 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Stone hard to play on drums?

34 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 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 5:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 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 Stone?

9 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 26, 30, 49, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED