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The Last Mile · Cinderella

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEANKS3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last Mile on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:53 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
48/100

ride through bars 3-7, kick and crashes through bars 8-9, silence through bars 10-12 and hi-hat through bars 13-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-23, 25-27 and 29-35, and 10 more places -- 68.1% 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 |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
The Last Mile -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 37, 49, 53 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 68-78 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 63-91 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Last Mile?

125 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 Last Mile hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Last Mile?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 12, 24, 28, 37, 49, 53 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED