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Always Watching You · Escuela Grind

Always Watching You · Escuela Grind
EXERCISE 19 OF 60
Groove M -- Part M
40 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART M
PART S
PART Y
PART E
PART AC
PART AD
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesHEMCAD+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Always Watching You on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
73/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-3, ride through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-16, snare through bars 17-21 and hi-hat through bars 22-35, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-16, 18-20 and 79-81, and 1 more place -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    18
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------------x-----------------------x-----|
Always Watching You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 21, 36, 37 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- H -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-22 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Always Watching You?

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Always Watching You hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 16 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Always Watching You?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 21, 36, 37 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED