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Hand Me Downs v2 · Mac Miller

EXERCISE 4 OF 8
Join Chorus to Break (bars 21-23)
69 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 8 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
3 groovesAS2S4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Hand Me Downs v2 on drums

77 bars, 4:28, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
69 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
36/100

hi-hat through bars 1-22, silence through bars 23-26 and hi-hat through bars 27-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-9, 11-21 and 27-37, and 9 more places -- 80.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-----x-|
Hand Me Downs v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-77 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Hand Me Downs v2?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Hand Me Downs v2 hard to play on drums?

36 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED