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Giving Up · Silverstein

EXERCISE 9 OF 43
Groove H
78 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART J, PART L
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
PART D
PART L
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBJDML+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Giving Up on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
66/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-64, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-23 and 73-86 -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----x---|
BD |xx-x-x----x-----|
Giving Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J, D -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part D and Part J -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 57-89 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-75 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 72-105 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Giving Up?

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 Giving Up hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Giving Up?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 37, 38, 39 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED