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drivers license · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 1 OF 11
Groove E -- Outro 2
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBCS1S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play drivers license on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 1:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-35, silence through bars 36-38 and ride through bars 39-70.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-70 -- 50.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x-------x---|
HH |--------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
drivers license -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- E -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Bars 29-35 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is drivers license?

144 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 drivers license hard to play on drums?

54 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?

70 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 4 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED