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I'll Be Over You · Toto

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Chorus 3
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CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
PART L
VERSE
OUTRO
VERSE 2
6 groovesBHELC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I'll Be Over You on drums

79 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 3:51 of playing, on crash, 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
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
79
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-79.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 10, and 3 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-xxx-xxx-xx|
SD |------------r---|
BD |x------xx-------|
I'll Be Over You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 55, 61, 73 and 79.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- B, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-20 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 14-28 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-62 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Verse 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I'll Be Over You?

82 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'll Be Over You 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?

79 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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'll Be Over You?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 48, 55, 61, 73 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 79 BARS ANALYSED