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As Long As It Matters · Gin Blossoms

EXERCISE 9 OF 13
Groove G
83 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 13 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play As Long As It Matters on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:24 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
4:24
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 3-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 7-8 and 11-17, and 17 more places -- 72.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
As Long As It Matters -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 9 and 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is As Long As It Matters?

90 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 Long As It Matters hard to play on drums?

49 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 4:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Long As It Matters?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 2, 9 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED