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911/ Mr. Lonely · Tyler, The Creator

EXERCISE 17 OF 21
Groove M
78 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK
PART J
6 groovesAJES4S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 911/ Mr. Lonely on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:57 of playing, on hi-hat, snare 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
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-56, silence through bars 57-62 and hi-hat through bars 63-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 10 and 12, and 20 more places -- 35.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------xx------|
911/ Mr. Lonely -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-39 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 63-89 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 911/ Mr. Lonely?

90 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 911/ Mr. Lonely 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED