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Tom Sawyer - Rush · Rush

EXERCISE 2 OF 68
Groove Y -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 68 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART F
PART G
PART O
PART V
CHORUS
PART AO
PART O
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesYOVGAO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tom Sawyer - Rush on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at a walking 87 BPM, 4:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
92/100

hi-hat through bars 1-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-44 and ride through bars 45-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 35-43 and 93-95 -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35                           36
    1.......2.......3.......4... 1.......2.......3.......4...
CC |x---------------------------|----------------------------|
HH |----x-g-x-g-x-o-g-g-x-g-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-g-x-o-g-o-g-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x---------------x---|--------x---------------x---|
BD |x---x---------x-----x-------|x---x---------x---x---------|
HF |----------------x-----------|----------------x---x-------|
Tom Sawyer - Rush -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 40 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- V -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Y -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tom Sawyer - Rush?

87 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Tom Sawyer - Rush hard to play on drums?

92 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 76 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 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 Tom Sawyer - Rush?

16 fills to learn, played 46 times: bars 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, 21 and 40 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED