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Can You Afford to Be An Individual? · Nothing But Thieves

EXERCISE 1 OF 25
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 25 PASSED · 33 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART S3
PART G
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBIGS3P+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Can You Afford to Be An Individual? on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
3:39
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-53, silence through bars 54-60, hi-hat through bars 61-92, toms through bars 93-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-137.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 15 and 17, and 23 more places -- 26.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|
Can You Afford to Be An Individual? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 44 and 104.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-76 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Can You Afford to Be An Individual??

150 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 You Afford to Be An Individual? hard to play on drums?

59 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 3:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Can You Afford to Be An Individual??

1 fill to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 44 and 104.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED