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Watching From A Distance · Warning

EXERCISE 3 OF 70
Groove AA -- Outro 2
86 / 232 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART N
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKNAARE+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Watching From A Distance on drums

232 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 58 BPM, 13:50 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

55 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
58 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
232
LENGTH
13:50
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-6, ride through bars 7-10, hi-hat through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-22, hi-hat through bars 23-36 and kick and crashes through bars 37-38, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 35 and 39-43, and 14 more places -- 25.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    41
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-----------------------|
HH |--------o-------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------|
BD |x-----------x-------x---|
Watching From A Distance -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 18 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- K, R -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 2-21 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-17 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-173 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-35 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Watching From A Distance?

58 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Watching From A Distance hard to play on drums?

55 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

232 bars, about 13:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 16 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 Watching From A Distance?

11 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 18 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 232 BARS ANALYSED