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The Touch · Stan Bush

The Touch · Stan Bush
EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove H -- Chorus
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PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
VERSE
PART N
CHORUS 4
VERSE 2
6 groovesHDENA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Touch on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-87, ride through bars 88-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-124.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-20, 22-26 and 28-29, and 8 more places -- 29.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
The Touch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 21, 27, 32 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-45 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 44-75 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-87 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-114 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Touch?

126 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 Touch hard to play on drums?

61 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Touch?

6 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 7, 11, 15, 21, 27, 32 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED