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The Other Side · James Marriott

EXERCISE 3 OF 40
Groove G
68 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART S8
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCS8DB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Other Side on drums

142 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 3:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-38, hi-hat through bars 39-40 and snare through bars 41-46, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-38, 41-46 and 65-70, and 5 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
The Other Side -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 48, 64, 80, 120 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-68 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-108 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Other Side?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Other Side hard to play on drums?

57 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Other Side?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 31, 32, 48, 64, 80, 120 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED