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Friend · Blackmail
EXERCISE 7 OF 20
Groove E
190 / 240 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBDFS6S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Friend on drums

240 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 7:26 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
240
LENGTH
7:26
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-36, hi-hat through bars 37-68, ride through bars 69-92, hi-hat through bars 93-120 and silence through bars 121-128, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 19 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |---x--------x--------xxx|
BD |x--------x--------------|
Friend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 172.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. Bars 33-66 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 62-121 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 129-173 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Friend?

127 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Friend hard to play on drums?

52 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

240 bars, about 7:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Friend?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 172.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 240 BARS ANALYSED