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Closer;) · Kings of Leon

EXERCISE 5 OF 20
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
109 / 151 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesBIFS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Closer;) on drums

151 bars at 156 BPM -- fast, and 3:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
156 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:52
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-132 and snare through bars 133-151.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8, 10 and 12, and 52 more places -- 38.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    26
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |---x--x-----------------|
Closer;) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 139 and 141.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 107-143 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Closer;)?

156 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Closer;) hard to play on drums?

52 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?

151 bars, about 3:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Closer;)?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 139 and 141.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED