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EXERCISE 21 OF 32
Run L1 · Chorus (bars 26-50)
65 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART H
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesLHTGFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Funny Person (WIP) on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
65/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-3, toms through bars 4-9, ride through bars 10-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-25 and ride through bars 26-53, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 26-28, 30-32 and 34-36, and 3 more places -- 24.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26                       27
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|------x-----------x-----|
T2 |------------------------|--------------------x---|
FT |------------------------|---------------------x--|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x--xxx|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---xx|
Funny Person (WIP) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 17 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part H and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Funny Person (WIP)?

80 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 Funny Person (WIP) hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Funny Person (WIP)?

7 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 17 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED