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Tennesse Whiskey · David Allen Cole

Tennesse Whiskey · David Allen Cole
EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Outro
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INTRO
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
4 groovesDS6BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tennesse Whiskey on drums

61 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 76 BPM, 4:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
76 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
61
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
27/100

ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-14, hi-hat through bars 15-28, ride through bars 29-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-40, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 7-8 and 11-12, and 6 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x-----------|
Tennesse Whiskey -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 29 and 37.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 6-18 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-43 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Tennesse Whiskey?

76 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Tennesse Whiskey hard to play on drums?

27 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

61 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Tennesse Whiskey?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 29 and 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 61 BARS ANALYSED