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Where the green grass grows · Tim McGraw

EXERCISE 22 OF 33
3-bar fill at bar 42
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0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFHMS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where the green grass grows on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7 and 37, and 8 more places -- 21.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Where the green grass grows -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 6, 35, 36, 40, 42 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- C, F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-41 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Where the green grass grows?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Where the green grass grows hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Where the green grass grows?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 4, 6, 35, 36, 40, 42 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED