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Traders And Gunboats · Slough Feg

Traders And Gunboats · Slough Feg
EXERCISE 16 OF 74
Join Part F to Chorus (bars 16-18)
104 / 179 BARS COVERED
0 / 74 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART F
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLGFCAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Traders And Gunboats on drums

179 bars at 182 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
182 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
75/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-24 and toms through bars 25-27, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 34-36 and 38-40, and 9 more places -- 23.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
Traders And Gunboats -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 32, 33, 37 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 1-18 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 14-34 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Traders And Gunboats?

182 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Traders And Gunboats hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 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 Traders And Gunboats?

19 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 9, 16, 17, 32, 33, 37 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED