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The Trees (Alternate Tab) · Rush

EXERCISE 33 OF 66
Join Part O to Part S5 (bars 68-70)
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0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART S5
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART O
PART S5
PART S7
PART AC
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesES1OACS5+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Trees (Alternate Tab) on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 4:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44, ride through bars 45-50, toms through bars 51-52 and ride through bars 53-58, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-35, 37-39 and 41-43, and 3 more places -- 15.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |g-g-g-g-g-o-g-g-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
The Trees (Alternate Tab) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 40 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-61 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part S5 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 68-108 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part S7 and Part AC -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Trees (Alternate Tab)?

136 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 Trees (Alternate Tab) 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 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 4:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 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 Trees (Alternate Tab)?

19 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 40 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED