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All Downhill From Here · New Found Glory

EXERCISE 4 OF 58
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
23 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
PART S2
PART G
CHORUS
PART O
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART G
PART S11
CHORUS 3
11 groovesLGS11BI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Downhill From Here on drums

134 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-10, silence through bars 11-17, ride through bars 18-33, snare through bars 34-44, hi-hat through bars 45-53 and ride through bars 54-69, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-40, 70-76 and 122-128 -- 18.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x-----x-----x-|
BD |x---x-x---x-----|
All Downhill From Here -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 33, 41 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-82 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-78 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is All Downhill From Here?

170 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 All Downhill From Here hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 All Downhill From Here?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 3, 5, 9, 33, 41 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED