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Been Thinkin' · Missing Link

EXERCISE 3 OF 49
Groove X
25 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART S7
OUTRO
8 groovesJNGBD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Been Thinkin' on drums

97 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 2:06 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:06
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-33, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31 and 35, and 11 more places -- 14.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-x---x-|
BD |--x-x-x-----x---|
Been Thinkin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 25, 32 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- J, N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 25-46 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Been Thinkin'?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Been Thinkin' hard to play on drums?

55 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 11 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 Been Thinkin'?

10 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 25, 32 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED