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Test Drive (How To Train Your Dragon) · John Powell

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 12 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBECS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Test Drive (How To Train Your Dragon) on drums

67 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:26 of playing, on high tom, mid tom and floor tom.

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
2:26
DIFFICULTY
17/100

toms through bars 2-38, silence through bars 39-44 and toms through bars 45-67.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 7-8, and 18 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
T2 |x-------x-------|
FT |x-----x-x-----xx|
Test Drive (How To Train Your Dragon) -- 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 -- B, C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 2-63 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Test Drive (How To Train Your Dragon)?

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 Test Drive (How To Train Your Dragon) hard to play on drums?

17 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 5 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 2:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

high tom, mid tom and floor tom. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 67 BARS ANALYSED