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Cause for Concern · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 10 OF 50
Groove G
60 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART S7
PART AA
PART AC
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFKAAAAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cause for Concern on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
64/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, toms through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-48, toms through bars 49-64, ride through bars 65-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-81, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 37 and 41, and 10 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Cause for Concern -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- K, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-81 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Cause for Concern?

148 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 Cause for Concern hard to play on drums?

64 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Cause for Concern?

9 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 29, 30, 31, 32, 35, 36 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED