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Dressed For Friend Requests · Drop Dead, Gorgeous

Dressed For Friend Requests · Drop Dead, Gorgeous
EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove L -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART K
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLCS1KM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dressed For Friend Requests on drums

115 bars at 177 BPM -- fast, and 2:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
177 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
2:36
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-15, snare through bars 16-87, kick and crashes through bars 88-94 and snare through bars 95-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-42, 74-75 and 77-79, and 1 more place -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    75
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Dressed For Friend Requests -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 22, 28, 58, 60, 66 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- L, K -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-102 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-57 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 64-74 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-81 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dressed For Friend Requests?

177 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 Dressed For Friend Requests hard to play on drums?

46 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 2:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Dressed For Friend Requests?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 18, 22, 28, 58, 60, 66 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED