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The Cowboy Rides Away · George Strait

The Cowboy Rides Away · George Strait
EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 10 PASSED · 75 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Cowboy Rides Away on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

47 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
89
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
47/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-12, 21-23 and 25-39, and 4 more places -- 84.3% 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-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
The Cowboy Rides Away -- 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 9 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 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-48 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Cowboy Rides Away?

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 The Cowboy Rides Away hard to play on drums?

47 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED