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The Road To Ubar · Alchemist

The Road To Ubar · Alchemist
EXERCISE 13 OF 28
Run E1 · Part E (bars 21-36)
94 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART J
OUTRO
5 groovesBHJES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Road To Ubar on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
42/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-44, toms through bars 45-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-108.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 45-72 -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    45               46
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |--x-x-xx-xx-x-x-|--xxx-xx-xxxx-x-|
T2 |--------------x-|x-------------x-|
FT |x-------------x-|x---------------|
The Road To Ubar -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 40, 82, 84 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- H, J -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 21-72 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 69-108 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Road To Ubar?

95 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 Road To Ubar hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in The Road To Ubar?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 40, 82, 84 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED