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Desperately · Michelle Branch

EXERCISE 17 OF 17
Play the whole song with the record
88 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 89 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Desperately on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
31/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-29, snare through bars 30-41, ride through bars 42-65 and snare through bars 66-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-20, 30-40 and 66-88 -- 59.6% 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
SD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------------x-|
Desperately -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 41, 53 and 57.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-42 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Desperately?

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 Desperately hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 4 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Desperately?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 41, 53 and 57.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED