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Cheer Down · George Harrison

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove A -- Outro
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OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cheer Down on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-106 and ride through bars 107-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-7 and 9-23, and 14 more places -- 76.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Cheer Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 60, 74, 78, 82, 90 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cheer Down?

115 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 Cheer Down hard to play on drums?

48 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Cheer Down?

3 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 36, 60, 74, 78, 82, 90 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED