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good 4 u · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 28 OF 34
Groove X (a two-bar phrase)
95 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
PART E
CHORUS
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART S9
OUTRO
9 groovesJPVEM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play good 4 u on drums

122 bars at 169 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
169 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-12, hi-hat through bars 13-19, snare through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-39 and snare through bars 40-41, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-28 and 31-33, and 8 more places -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |----------x---x-|
good 4 u -- 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 21, 29, 56, 57, 65, 113 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- J, I -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-22 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-90 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 87-122 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is good 4 u?

169 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is good 4 u hard to play on drums?

56 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 good 4 u?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 21, 29, 56, 57, 65, 113 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED