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Sur La Route · Gerald De Palmas

Sur La Route · Gerald De Palmas
EXERCISE 3 OF 17
Groove D (a two-bar phrase)
66 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART S1
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
4 groovesCJS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sur La Route on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bar 1, silence through bars 2-5, hi-hat through bars 6-65, ride through bars 66-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-16, 18-26 and 28-33, and 7 more places -- 71% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
HF |--------------x-|
Sur La Route -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 61, 65 and 76.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 62-77 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sur La Route?

110 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 Sur La Route hard to play on drums?

51 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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 Sur La Route?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 35, 61, 65 and 76.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED