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Get Him Back · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 24 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCLS5S3BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Get Him Back on drums

66 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:16
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, silence through bars 21-23, hi-hat through bars 24-30, ride through bars 31-33, hi-hat through bars 34-38 and silence through bars 39-42, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-6, 10 and 13-20, and 6 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-----x---x-----x-------|
BD |x---x---------------x-----------|
Get Him Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 28, 54, 60 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-55 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-50 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Get Him Back?

81 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 Get Him Back hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Get Him Back?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 12, 28, 54, 60 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED