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I See Myself · Geese

EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove I -- Part I
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PART A
PART C
PART E
PART G
PART I
PART J
CHORUS
PART O
PART I
PART S
PART S
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesKISMA+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 2
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I See Myself on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-15, toms through bars 16-20, hi-hat through bars 21-55, snare through bars 56-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-25, 46 and 51-55, and 5 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    21
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------x-------------------------------x-------|
I See Myself -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 74, 75 and 93.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- I, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 14-21 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-31 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  8. Bars 42-94 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I See Myself?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 See Myself hard to play on drums?

58 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 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 See Myself?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 74, 75 and 93.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED