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To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth · Entombed

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove A -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART S6
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesAES6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, 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
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-32, toms through bars 33-34, snare through bars 35-36, toms through bars 37-41, snare through bars 42-56 and toms through bars 57-58, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-2, 4-5 and 7-8, and 10 more places -- 28.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x--x--x--x--x--x|--x--x--x--x--x-|
SD |---x-----x-----x|-----x-----x----|
BD |x-x--xx-x--xx-x-|-xx-x--xx-x--xx-|
To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 12, 18, 21, 24, 30 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-43 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 39-67 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth?

111 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 To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 To Ride, Shoot Straight and Speak the Truth?

5 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 6, 12, 18, 21, 24, 30 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED