ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Workhorse (Chorus corrected) on drums

115 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 120 BPM, 4:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 3/4
BARS: 115
LENGTH: 4:06
DIFFICULTY: 74/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-12, ride through bars 13-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42, snare through bars 43-46 and hi-hat through bars 47-56, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 33-40 and 49-56 -- 14.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33                                               34
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|----x---x---x-----------x-----------x-----------|
RD |----x-x-x---x---x-x-x---x---x-x-x---------------|------------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------o-------|
SD |------g-g---x-----g-g---------g-g---x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x---------x---xxxxx-x-------------x---x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

Workhorse (Chorus corrected) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 46, 48 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- AM, A -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
Through Part A and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part G and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part O and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Bars 41-57 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part AC -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
and 6 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Workhorse (Chorus corrected)?

120 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Workhorse (Chorus corrected) hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Workhorse (Chorus corrected)?

11 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 23, 24, 28, 32, 46, 48 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED