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Do Me A Favor · Stone Sour

EXERCISE 25 OF 43
Run D3 · Part D (bars 81-89)
112 / 136 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART B
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART D
PART K
PART H
OUTRO
12 groovesGHMDB+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Do Me A Favor on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 3:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:55
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-11, snare through bars 12-19, toms through bars 20-38, snare through bars 39-46 and toms through bars 47-49, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-38 and 55-67 -- 21.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
SD |------------------x-----|
T2 |----x-----x-------------|
FT |x-----x-----x---x-----x-|
BD |x-----------------------|
HF |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Do Me A Favor -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 23, 39, 50, 54, 70 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G, M -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-48 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-80 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 94-117 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Do Me A Favor?

139 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Do Me A Favor hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 62 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Do Me A Favor?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 12, 23, 39, 50, 54, 70 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED