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I Go to Extremes (Ver. 2) · Billy Joel

EXERCISE 29 OF 43
Join Chorus 2 to Part B (bars 75-77)
136 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART B
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBKDHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Go to Extremes (Ver. 2) on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
57/100

snare through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-9, ride through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-35, ride through bars 36-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-39, and 24 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 7-9 and 13, and 22 more places -- 38.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
I Go to Extremes (Ver. 2) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 21, 26, 27, 57, 81 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E, B -- 5 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-58 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 75-134 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 130-142 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Go to Extremes (Ver. 2)?

126 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 Go to Extremes (Ver. 2) hard to play on drums?

57 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Go to Extremes (Ver. 2)?

10 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 1, 21, 26, 27, 57, 81 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED