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Dearest (I'm So Sorry) · Picture Me Broken

Dearest (I'm So Sorry) · Picture Me Broken
EXERCISE 30 OF 52
Groove U -- Part U (a two-bar phrase)
82 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART U
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART K
PART R
PART U
OUTRO
10 groovesDKUFR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dearest (I'm So Sorry) on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom 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
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, snare through bars 18-33, hi-hat through bars 34-41 and snare through bars 42-53, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-8, 18-20 and 22-28, and 3 more places -- 23% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx----xx--x-----|
Dearest (I'm So Sorry) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 29, 33, 45 and 12 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-17 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-85 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part U -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part R and Part U -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dearest (I'm So Sorry)?

118 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 Dearest (I'm So Sorry) 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Dearest (I'm So Sorry)?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 21, 29, 33, 45 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED