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Takin' It To The Streets · The Doobie Brothers

Takin' It To The Streets · The Doobie Brothers
EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesACS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Takin' It To The Streets on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:47 of playing, on ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
33/100

hi-hat through bars 1-32 and ride through bars 33-127.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-32, 41-64 and 72-95, and 1 more place -- 69% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |------o-x-------|----------------|
SD |----------------|------------x---|
T2 |----------------|------------x---|
BD |----------------|------x-x-------|
HF |x-x-x-----x-x-x-|--x---x-x-x---x-|
Takin' It To The Streets -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 29-103 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Takin' It To The Streets?

134 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 Takin' It To The Streets hard to play on drums?

33 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED