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I For You · Luna Sea

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove C -- Chorus
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CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART E
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEGHA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I For You on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:16 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:16
DIFFICULTY
46/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-32, ride through bars 33-41, hi-hat through bars 42-58, ride through bars 59-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-91, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 4 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
I For You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 42, 50 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- C, E -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-43 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-67 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 72-111 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I For You?

95 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 For You 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?

125 bars, about 5:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 8 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 For You?

13 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 40, 42, 50 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED