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Country Girl (Shake It For Me) · Luke Bryan

EXERCISE 6 OF 53
Groove R -- Outro 2
45 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, OUTRO 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHBRUE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Country Girl (Shake It For Me) on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 106 BPM, 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
106 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 2-17, hi-hat through bars 18-96, ride through bars 97-98 and toms through bars 99-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 42-44, and 7 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x--x|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Country Girl (Shake It For Me) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 40 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- H, B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-42 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-97 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Country Girl (Shake It For Me)?

106 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 Country Girl (Shake It For Me) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 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, 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 Country Girl (Shake It For Me)?

14 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, 40 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED