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I Don't Know · Druidess

I Don't Know · Druidess
EXERCISE 24 OF 46
Groove S (a two-bar phrase)
63 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART X
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDXHWFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Don't Know on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-18, ride through bars 19-35, hi-hat through bars 36-38, ride through bars 39-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 10 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
I Don't Know -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 20-34 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-30 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Don't Know?

133 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 I Don't Know hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Don't Know?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 1, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED