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I Thought You Met Telly And Turned Me Into Casper · Emmure

EXERCISE 21 OF 38
Join Part H to Part M (bars 34-36)
63 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART M
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART M
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBMHEP+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Thought You Met Telly And Turned Me Into Casper on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
2:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bars 2-19, hi-hat through bars 20-31, snare through bars 32-44, toms through bars 45-51, snare through bars 52-58 and hi-hat through bars 59-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-9, 12-18 and 52, and 10 more places -- 38% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|x--x--x-x-xxxxxx|
I Thought You Met Telly And Turned Me Into Casper -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 19, 27, 29, 31, 35, 59 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, M -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-91 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part H -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-36 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-45 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 43-55 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Thought You Met Telly And Turned Me Into Casper?

139 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 Thought You Met Telly And Turned Me Into Casper hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 2:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 Thought You Met Telly And Turned Me Into Casper?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 19, 27, 29, 31, 35, 59 and 8 more.

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