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Words (Between the Lines of Age) · Neil Young

EXERCISE 3 OF 48
Groove AT -- Part AT
20 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AT
PART B
PART C
PART E
PART G
PART B
CHORUS
PART AT
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKBBKCAT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Words (Between the Lines of Age) on drums

136 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 65 BPM, 6:37 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
65 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
6:37
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-35, ride through bars 36-63, snare through bars 64-66, ride through bars 67-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-102, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 4 more places -- 7.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1...........2...........3.....
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----|
Words (Between the Lines of Age) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 64, 65, 66 and 92.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-44 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part AT -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part AT -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Words (Between the Lines of Age)?

65 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 Words (Between the Lines of Age) hard to play on drums?

59 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 6:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Words (Between the Lines of Age)?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 64, 65, 66 and 92.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED