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The Distance · Cake

EXERCISE 5 OF 13
Groove D
43 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Distance on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 89 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
89 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 39-42 and 48-54, and 2 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----x---------|
HH |--o-o---ooo-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x--xx---x-|
The Distance -- 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 5, 18 and 43.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- E, C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Distance?

89 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 Distance hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The Distance?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 5, 18 and 43.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED