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Accidentally In Love · Counting Crows

EXERCISE 3 OF 45
Groove F
42 / 105 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART S
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCGWBS+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Accidentally In Love on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 3:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:03
DIFFICULTY
53/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-50, ride through bars 51-53, hi-hat through bars 54-72, toms through bars 73-82 and snare through bars 83-88, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-16, 18-24 and 36-41, and 2 more places -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Accidentally In Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 34, 35, 42 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- C, G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-36 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part S -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Accidentally In Love?

138 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 Accidentally In Love hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Accidentally In Love?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 17, 25, 34, 35, 42 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED