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Everything As You Knew It · a 6-person ensemble of buffoons

Everything As You Knew It · a 6-person ensemble of buffoons
EXERCISE 3 OF 82
Groove AT -- Part AT
40 / 210 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AT
PART G
PART O
PART V
CHORUS
PART AT
PART V
PART O
PART AH
OUTRO 2
12 groovesAIVOATAH+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everything As You Knew It on drums

210 bars at 215 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
215 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
210
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
62/100

ride through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-18, ride through bars 19-25, hi-hat through bars 26-27, ride through bars 28-31 and hi-hat through bars 32-35, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 51-53, 55-56 and 59, and 7 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---xx|
Everything As You Knew It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 27 and 71 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- V, AL (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AT -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-23 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Everything As You Knew It?

215 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 Everything As You Knew It hard to play on drums?

62 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

210 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 20 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Everything As You Knew It?

18 fills to learn, played 77 times: bars 2, 4, 6, 8, 26, 27 and 71 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 210 BARS ANALYSED