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Here I Am · Altaria

EXERCISE 14 OF 28
Fill at bar 33, 73 and 109
118 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO 2
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDGLES1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Here I Am on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-33, ride through bars 34-57, hi-hat through bars 58-73 and ride through bars 74-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-7, 10-11 and 35, and 18 more places -- 32.8% 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
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Here I Am -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 33, 37, 45, 73, 77 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, G -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 12-40 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 40-79 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Here I Am?

135 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 Here I Am 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Here I Am?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 17, 33, 37, 45, 73, 77 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED