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Everything Is Fine! AI · Periphery

EXERCISE 23 OF 82
Groove Y -- Part Y
111 / 205 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
CHORUS
PART L
PART Y
PART AK
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART BO
16 groovesBLAKYBO+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everything Is Fine! AI on drums

205 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
205
LENGTH
4:46
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-82, ride through bars 83-91, toms through bars 92-95, hi-hat through bars 96-99, ride through bars 100-110 and toms through bars 111-112, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-6 and 10, and 18 more places -- 13.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x---------x-|
Everything Is Fine! AI -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 12, 32, 48, 49, 51, 52 and 45 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- B, H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BW -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Everything Is Fine! AI?

180 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 Is Fine! AI hard to play on drums?

59 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

205 bars, about 4:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 19 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 Is Fine! AI?

17 fills to learn, played 51 times: bars 12, 32, 48, 49, 51, 52 and 45 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 205 BARS ANALYSED