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And I · Box Car Racer

EXERCISE 19 OF 40
Fill at bar 56 and 88 (a small one)
121 / 161 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHLAQN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play And I on drums

161 bars at 208 BPM -- fast, and 3:06 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
208 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
161
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
66/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-26, toms through bars 27-28, ride through bars 29-30, toms through bars 31-33 and silence through bars 34-56, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 19.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--------------o-|----------------|
SD |--g-g-g-f-g-g---|g-g-g---x-g-gggg|
T2 |----------------|------x---------|
BD |x-----x---------|----------------|
HF |g---g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|
And I -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 56, 64, 68 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-43 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  6. Bars 56-102 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 99-130 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is And I?

208 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 And I hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

161 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 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 And I?

6 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 32, 36, 40, 56, 64, 68 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 161 BARS ANALYSED