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Get Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one · Employee of the Month

EXERCISE 10 OF 89
4-bar fill at bar 7
61 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 89 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S2
PART S2
PART J
PART M
PART S
PART AA
PART AF
CHORUS
PART AV
PART AZ
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesXAZAVAFM+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 7
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Get Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one on drums

178 bars of 4/4 at 154 BPM, about 4:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
154 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-10, snare through bars 11-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52, snare through bars 53-85 and toms through bars 86-88, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47 and 49, and 23 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    77
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----x--x--------x-----------|
Get Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 20 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- X -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AJ, AZ -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 11-125 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S2 and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Get Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one?

154 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 Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Get Your Affairs in Order Before you Have one?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 20 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED