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(You) On My Arm · Leith Ross

(You) On My Arm · Leith Ross
EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART D
BREAK
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBDLS4I+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (You) On My Arm on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 3-60, silence through bars 61-66, snare through bars 67-69, silence through bars 70-73, hi-hat through bars 74-81 and snare through bars 82-89, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-18, 20-22 and 24-26, and 9 more places -- 67.1% 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
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
(You) On My Arm -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 44, 52, 73 and 81.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 53-69 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 68-86 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is (You) On My Arm?

98 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 (You) On My Arm hard to play on drums?

42 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 (You) On My Arm?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 19, 44, 52, 73 and 81.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED