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Straight Ahead · Jimi Hendrix

EXERCISE 4 OF 61
Groove C
51 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART S
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVSPHE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Straight Ahead on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
63/100

hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-39, ride through bars 40-41, snare through bars 42-47 and ride through bars 48-53, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-30, 32 and 42-45, and 3 more places -- 16.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------------------x--x-----x-----------------|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Straight Ahead -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- S, P -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 20-29 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Straight Ahead?

108 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 Straight Ahead hard to play on drums?

63 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?

125 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 16 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Straight Ahead?

11 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED