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I Only Go To School For The Handrails · Forus

EXERCISE 36 OF 56
2-bar fill at bar 96
100 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
PART K
CHORUS 3
PART Y
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
9 groovesBYKAAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Only Go To School For The Handrails on drums

140 bars at 250 BPM -- fast, and 2:09 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
250 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
2:09
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-60, snare through bars 61-62, hi-hat through bars 63-77, snare through bars 78-79 and hi-hat through bars 80-85, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-27 and 29-30, and 6 more places -- 34.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
I Only Go To School For The Handrails -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 59, 60, 61 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AE, K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-64 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-67 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 3 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Y and Part AE -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Only Go To School For The Handrails?

250 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Only Go To School For The Handrails hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 2:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in I Only Go To School For The Handrails?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 28, 36, 59, 60, 61 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED