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Beer · Itchyworms

Beer · Itchyworms
EXERCISE 26 OF 67
Groove K
79 / 127 BARS COVERED
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PART F
PART H
VERSE
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
VERSE 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesPHCNAD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
JOIN · 9
LINK · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beer on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at a walking 85 BPM, 5:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
5:55
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-15, ride through bars 16-23, hi-hat through bars 24-27, ride through bars 28-35 and hi-hat through bars 36-48, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 40-42 and 44, and 6 more places -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx---xx-x----x|
Beer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 6, 15, 19, 22, 27, 33 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 22-37 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beer?

85 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 Beer hard to play on drums?

62 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 5:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Beer?

16 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 6, 15, 19, 22, 27, 33 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED