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How Can I Make It OK? · Wolf Alice

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove F -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFACS1S3+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play How Can I Make It OK? on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, silence through bars 13-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-40 and 57-96 -- 62.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x---x-x-------|
How Can I Make It OK? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-23 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is How Can I Make It OK??

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 How Can I Make It OK? hard to play on drums?

46 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 How Can I Make It OK??

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 16.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED