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Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot · Alternative Competition 2

EXERCISE 6 OF 38
Groove D -- Part D (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 38 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART A
PART P
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBFTAP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-48, kick and crashes through bars 49-55, snare through bars 56-61, hi-hat through bars 62-69 and silence through bars 70-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-13, 18-25 and 34-41, and 1 more place -- 29.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6                                                                7
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------x-------|
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------|o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o-------o---------------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x-------x-x-x-x-|----------------x-----------------------x-x-x-x-x-------x-------|
BD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|x-------x-----------------------x-------------------------------|
Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 16-29 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part A and Part P -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot?

120 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 Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot hard to play on drums?

64 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Take The Gun Son...But Don't Shoot?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 6 more.

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