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Am I Bothering You?? · Reality Club

EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 61 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
BREAK 2
CHORUS 4
8 groovesBDABJI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Am I Bothering You?? on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
3:42
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-29, toms through bars 30-31, hi-hat through bars 32-39 and snare through bars 40-46, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-11 and 32-41, and 6 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Am I Bothering You?? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 29, 30, 31, 57 and 15 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-52 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 3 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Break 2 and the Chorus 4 -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 120-126 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Am I Bothering You???

140 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 Am I Bothering You?? hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 3:42 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, 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 Am I Bothering You???

10 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 3, 29, 30, 31, 57 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED