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Be Your Everything · Boys Like Girls

Be Your Everything · Boys Like Girls
EXERCISE 3 OF 19
Groove B -- Part B
28 / 64 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
5 groovesCBIS1S7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be Your Everything on drums

64 bars, 3:28, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
3:28
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-50, silence through bars 51-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 21 and 33-39, and 4 more places -- 47.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x-x--x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Be Your Everything -- 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 32, 44 and 46.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Be Your Everything?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Be Your Everything hard to play on drums?

58 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 3:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Your Everything?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 44 and 46.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED