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Come As You Are · Mckenzie

Come As You Are · Mckenzie
EXERCISE 9 OF 22
Groove E -- Outro
90 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDBES6S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Come As You Are on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
59/100

toms through bar 1, ride through bars 2-21, snare through bars 22-28, silence through bars 29-31, ride through bars 32-39 and snare through bars 40-44, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 57.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Come As You Are -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 31, 51, 87 and 107.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 21-45 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 49-108 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Come As You Are?

120 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 Come As You Are 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Come As You Are?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 31, 51, 87 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED