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Coulda Been Something · Fox N' Vead

Coulda Been Something · Fox N' Vead
EXERCISE 18 OF 43
Run M1 · Part M (bars 24-29)
44 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFBJUM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Coulda Been Something on drums

74 bars, 3:57, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
3:57
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-14, snare through bars 15-18, ride through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-34 and snare through bars 35-39, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 35, and 7 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------x--------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Coulda Been Something -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-38 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part U and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Coulda Been Something?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Coulda Been Something 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 3:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Coulda Been Something?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 13, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED