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ARE WE STILL FRIENDS · Tyler, The Creator

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBES6S1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play ARE WE STILL FRIENDS on drums

139 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 94 BPM, 4:25 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
34/100

hi-hat through bars 2-56, silence through bars 57-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-139.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 6 more places -- 89.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
ARE WE STILL FRIENDS -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 19, 21 and 82.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is ARE WE STILL FRIENDS?

94 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 ARE WE STILL FRIENDS hard to play on drums?

34 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 ARE WE STILL FRIENDS?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 17, 19, 21 and 82.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED