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Get used to it · Ricky Montgomery

EXERCISE 21 OF 32
Fill at bar 61 and 65 (a small one)
89 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
6 groovesOBJGT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Get used to it on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
48/100

toms through bars 2-25, hi-hat through bars 26-33, toms through bars 34-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-110, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 58-60, 62-64 and 74-79, and 15 more places -- 23.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Get used to it -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 48, 49, 61, 65, 73 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- O, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-50 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Get used to it?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 used to it hard to play on drums?

48 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Get used to it?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 25, 48, 49, 61, 65, 73 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED