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Human · Brandi Carlile

EXERCISE 42 OF 50
Fill at bar 106 and 110 (a small one)
115 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART I
PART H
PART M
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
11 groovesLHMCB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 1
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Human on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:10
DIFFICULTY
33/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-5, toms through bars 6-25, kick and crashes through bars 26-30, toms through bars 31-68, hi-hat through bars 69-89 and silence through bars 90-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 32-35, 48 and 50-56, and 1 more place -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    50
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
FT |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------|
Human -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 69, 75, 81, 85, 87, 88 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- H, L -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-25 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 24-43 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-74 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part S12 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part S12 and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Bars 95-116 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Human?

122 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 Human hard to play on drums?

33 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 4:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Human?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 69, 75, 81, 85, 87, 88 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED