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"Btw, That Untitled Song on Your Mixtape Was for You. I Wrote It When I Missed You." · suis la lune

EXERCISE 5 OF 51
Groove U -- Part U (a two-bar phrase)
26 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART H
PART B
CHORUS
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesLBUADH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play "Btw, That Untitled Song on Your Mixtape Was for You. I Wrote It When I Missed You." on drums

129 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, 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
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, ride through bars 49-58 and snare through bars 59-78, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-10, 13-14 and 17-18, and 5 more places -- 12.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |------o---o---o-|
SD |------x-------x-|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|
"Btw, That Untitled Song on Your Mixtape Was for You. I Wrote It When I Missed You." -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 40, 48, 58 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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, L -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 33-104 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-79 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is "Btw, That Untitled Song on Your Mixtape Was for You. I Wrote It When I Missed You."?

175 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 "Btw, That Untitled Song on Your Mixtape Was for You. I Wrote It When I Missed You." 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 14 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 "Btw, That Untitled Song on Your Mixtape Was for You. I Wrote It When I Missed You."?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 16, 24, 28, 40, 48, 58 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED