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Be Her · Ella Langley

EXERCISE 16 OF 18
Run J1 · Part J (bars 81-85)
84 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
INTRO
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
5 groovesBCJS6S9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be Her on drums

91 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
91
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-49, snare through bars 50-53, hi-hat through bars 54-61 and silence through bars 62-64, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 13-16 and 18-28, and 9 more places -- 71.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Be Her -- 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 37, 53 and 77.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 60-81 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Be Her?

111 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 Be Her hard to play on drums?

42 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

91 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 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 Be Her?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 37, 53 and 77.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED