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Tom Sawyer v3 · Rush

EXERCISE 12 OF 70
Groove H -- Part H
45 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART AK
PART C
PART H
CHORUS
PART W
PART AK
OUTRO 2
9 groovesTWCPA+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tom Sawyer v3 on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 4:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:44
DIFFICULTY
85/100

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 45-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-41, 43 and 91, and 1 more place -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1.......2.......3.......4...
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o---x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x---------------x---|
BD |x---x---------x-----x-------|
HF |----------------x-----------|
Tom Sawyer v3 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 17, 19, 21, 23, 30 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 53 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 -- T -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  7. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tom Sawyer v3?

85 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 v3 hard to play on drums?

85 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 53 exercises over 22 sittings, about 24 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 v3?

16 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 17, 19, 21, 23, 30 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED