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Almost · Bowling For Soup

EXERCISE 3 OF 25
Run S21 · Part S2 (bars 5-11)
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0 / 25 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 4
PART S11
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBES11S2S9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Almost on drums

113 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 107 BPM, 2:59 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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
107 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-24, snare through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-48 and snare through bars 49-56, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13-23 and 33-47, and 5 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o--o--o--o--|
SD |---x-----x--|
BD |x-x---x-----|
Almost -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 48, 65, 84, 85, 97 and 2 more.

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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 26-66 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 65-89 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Almost?

107 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Almost 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Almost?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 24, 48, 65, 84, 85, 97 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED