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Your Direction · Goose

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 25 PASSED · 87 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Direction on drums

140 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 4:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
4:50
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-140.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 17-23 and 25-27, and 20 more places -- 63.5% 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-------|
Your Direction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 48, 76, 84, 100, 116 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 25-41 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Direction?

116 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 Your Direction hard to play on drums?

46 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 4:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 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 Your Direction?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 40, 48, 76, 84, 100, 116 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED