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Give Me A Reason · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 27 OF 62
Join Part R to Part X (bars 63-65)
84 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART X
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART J
PART P
PART R
PART X
PART P
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBAHRPJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Give Me A Reason on drums

134 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
3:56
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-14, toms through bars 15-16, snare through bars 17-26, ride through bars 27-42 and toms through bars 43-46, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-14, 17-21 and 23, and 9 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x---------|
Give Me A Reason -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 43, 44, 45 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P, R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 22-36 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 31-50 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-66 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-77 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 73-89 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part AG -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Give Me A Reason?

136 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 Give Me A Reason hard to play on drums?

47 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 3:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 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 Give Me A Reason?

15 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 15, 16, 24, 43, 44, 45 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED