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The Trees · Rush

EXERCISE 17 OF 71
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 29-32)
53 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
PART O
PART Z
PART S6
PART AE
PART AN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesES1S6OAE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Trees 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.

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
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
4:45
DIFFICULTY
48/100

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 -- 13.6% 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 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 40 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- Z, O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-61 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part O and Part Z -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 66-103 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part AE -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Trees?

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 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 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 50 exercises over 14 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 Trees?

20 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 36, 40 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED