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Everybody Wants To Rule The World · Tears For Fears

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove D -- Outro
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0 / 8 PASSED · 66 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDS4BS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everybody Wants To Rule The World on drums

118 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 4:16 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 2-80 and silence through bars 81-118.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-26 and 28-30, and 5 more places -- 83.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-x---x-x---x-x---x-|
Everybody Wants To Rule The World -- 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 7 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Everybody Wants To Rule The World?

165 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Everybody Wants To Rule The World hard to play on drums?

55 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED