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Good · Better Than Ezra

Good · Better Than Ezra
EXERCISE 9 OF 25
Hold Groove A for 8 bars -- Chorus 2 (bars 25-32)
63 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
INTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Good on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 2:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:51
DIFFICULTY
55/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, ride through bars 15-18, hi-hat through bars 19-24, ride through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-52, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-3, 15-17 and 25-27, and 7 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------x---x-|
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x---x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|x-----x-x---x---|
Good -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 56, 60, 64 and 68.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Intro and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-18 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 25-48 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Good?

108 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 Good hard to play on drums?

55 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Good?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 52, 56, 60, 64 and 68.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED