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Beyond Me · After Forever

EXERCISE 31 OF 44
Groove P -- Part P
110 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, PART P
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART M
PART P
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFRJBP+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beyond Me on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 6:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
6:59
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-68 and ride through bars 69-78, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 7 more places -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x----x-x--x-----|x----x-x--x---xx|
Beyond Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 48, 68, 82 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- F, R -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-52 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beyond Me?

83 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 Beyond Me hard to play on drums?

56 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?

145 bars, about 6:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Beyond Me?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 24, 36, 40, 48, 68, 82 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED