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Doin’ Fine · No Pressure

EXERCISE 33 OF 34
Run M1 · Outro 2 (bars 91-99)
92 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART D
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesJDEMS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Doin’ Fine on drums

99 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 1:48 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
1:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, snare through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-24 and toms through bars 25-30, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33, 35 and 37, and 13 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o---o---o---|
SD |x-------x---|
BD |--x-x-x-----|
Doin’ Fine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 23, 30, 48 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-55 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 65-94 -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Doin’ Fine?

192 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Doin’ Fine hard to play on drums?

56 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 1:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Doin’ Fine?

5 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 7, 8, 15, 23, 30, 48 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED