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AS IF IT'S YOUR LAST · Blackpink

EXERCISE 15 OF 31
Groove M
86 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART A
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
6 groovesNAJLS10+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play AS IF IT'S YOUR LAST on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-33, hi-hat through bars 34-54, kick and crashes through bars 55-59 and toms through bars 60-67, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-45, 47-49 and 68-79, and 4 more places -- 40.8% 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 |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
AS IF IT'S YOUR LAST -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 57, 58, 65, 66 and 108.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- N, J -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part A -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is AS IF IT'S YOUR LAST?

125 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 AS IF IT'S YOUR LAST hard to play on drums?

59 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 AS IF IT'S YOUR LAST?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 57, 58, 65, 66 and 108.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED