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Everything · Lifehouse

EXERCISE 9 OF 17
Fill at bar 57
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0 / 17 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everything on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
33/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-41, hi-hat through bars 42-57 and ride through bars 58-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-39 -- 46.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Everything -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 38-48 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Everything?

95 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 Everything hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Everything?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 57 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED