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from me to u (feat. Poppy) · Babymetal

EXERCISE 9 OF 56
Groove E
73 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesBGKS20S5+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play from me to u (feat. Poppy) on drums

167 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:20 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-14, hi-hat through bars 15-26, snare through bars 27-32, hi-hat through bars 33-44 and snare through bars 45-46, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 10-11 and 15-17, and 16 more places -- 26.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
from me to u (feat. Poppy) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 12, 30, 37, 38, 59 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, G -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-74 -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 71-86 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 86-105 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is from me to u (feat. Poppy)?

200 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 from me to u (feat. Poppy) hard to play on drums?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 from me to u (feat. Poppy)?

11 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 12, 30, 37, 38, 59 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED