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After You My Friend · Lagwagon

EXERCISE 4 OF 39
Groove B -- Part B
32 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCBLS1T+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play After You My Friend on drums

121 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 2:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:19
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-34, toms through bars 35-36, snare through bars 37-58, hi-hat through bars 59-72 and silence through bars 73-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29 and 33-34, and 8 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
After You My Friend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 35, 36, 37, 82, 90 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-59 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-78 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-106 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 98-116 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is After You My Friend?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is After You My Friend hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 2:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 After You My Friend?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 28, 35, 36, 37, 82, 90 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED