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The Drag · Composers of MSB

EXERCISE 10 OF 23
Run B2 · Chorus 2 (bars 19-27)
80 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Drag on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 3-82, toms through bars 83-84 and hi-hat through bars 85-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-6, 19-21 and 23-25, and 13 more places -- 51.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 22, 40, 44, 83, 84 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-56 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 73-85 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Drag?

120 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 Drag hard to play on drums?

49 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?

101 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Drag?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 18, 22, 40, 44, 83, 84 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED