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Western · Attaque 77

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART C
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBCDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Western on drums

204 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 4:05 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
204
LENGTH
4:05
DIFFICULTY
66/100

ride through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-49, ride through bars 50-101, hi-hat through bars 102-133, ride through bars 134-201 and kick and crashes through bars 202-204.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 50-56 and 58-64, and 9 more places -- 61.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Western -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 65, 85, 133, 149, 169 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Western?

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

Is Western hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

204 bars, about 4:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Western?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 49, 65, 85, 133, 149, 169 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 204 BARS ANALYSED