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Friends · 870621345

EXERCISE 25 OF 43
Join Part J to Part R (bars 34-36)
53 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART R
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
PART R
PART T
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAJRTS7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Friends on drums

65 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:27
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-10, kick and crashes through bars 11-16, ride through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-35 and ride through bars 36-39, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-38, 45-47 and 49-51 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Friends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 21, 25, 26 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-36 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 32-45 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 43-61 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Friends?

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 Friends hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Friends?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 16, 20, 21, 25, 26 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED