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CAN WE IGNORE IT? : · Lola Young

EXERCISE 6 OF 43
Groove C -- Part C
68 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDFCBOFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play CAN WE IGNORE IT? : on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:26
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, toms through bars 26-33, hi-hat through bars 34-57, toms through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-80, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 34-40 and 66-72, and 4 more places -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
CAN WE IGNORE IT? : -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 41, 65, 73 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 38-108 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-114 -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is CAN WE IGNORE IT? :?

110 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 CAN WE IGNORE IT? : hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 23 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 CAN WE IGNORE IT? :?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 31, 32, 33, 41, 65, 73 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED