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earrings + 4me 4me + you owe me + rodrick rules + roommates + chest pain · malcolm todd

EXERCISE 15 OF 80
Run C2 · Part C (bars 42-49)
151 / 461 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
BREAK 5
CHORUS 3
PART AG
BREAK 8
26 groovesADAGLS29AN+21Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 22
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 7
JOIN · 22
LINK · 9
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play earrings + 4me 4me + you owe me + rodrick rules + roommates + chest pain on drums

461 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 22:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
461
LENGTH
22:15
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bar 1, kick and crashes through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-25, silence through bars 26-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-39 and hi-hat through bars 40-90, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 236-238, 240-242 and 326-341, and 1 more place -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    326
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
earrings + 4me 4me + you owe me + rodrick rules + roommates + chest pain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 413, 436, 437, 445, 456, 458 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 77 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 -- AG -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AD, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-302 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 42-55 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is earrings + 4me 4me + you owe me + rodrick rules + roommates + chest pain?

80 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 earrings + 4me 4me + you owe me + rodrick rules + roommates + chest pain hard to play on drums?

47 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

461 bars, about 22:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 77 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 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.

How many fills are in earrings + 4me 4me + you owe me + rodrick rules + roommates + chest pain?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 413, 436, 437, 445, 456, 458 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 461 BARS ANALYSED