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I Don't Care As Long As You Sing · Beatsteaks

EXERCISE 1 OF 9
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesDS1S4S6S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Don't Care As Long As You Sing on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:26 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, silence through bars 33-37, hi-hat through bars 38-60 and kick and crashes through bars 61-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-32, 38-60 and 68-109 -- 92.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x--------x--x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
I Don't Care As Long As You Sing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 8.

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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Don't Care As Long As You Sing?

129 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 Don't Care As Long As You Sing hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in I Don't Care As Long As You Sing?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 7 and 8.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED