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I Can Hear · DISH//

I Can Hear · DISH//
EXERCISE 16 OF 49
Groove L
40 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART AL
11 groovesFWOBAL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Can Hear on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 2-28, snare through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-58, toms through bars 59-60, snare through bars 61-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 7 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-x----xx-x-----x-x----xx-x-----|
I Can Hear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 26-34 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Can Hear?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 I Can Hear hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 I Can Hear?

10 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED