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I Want A New Drug · Huey Lewis And The News

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C -- Outro
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OUTRO
1 grooveCFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Want A New Drug on drums

130 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
46/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-19, snare through bars 20-22, hi-hat through bars 23-38, snare through bars 39-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-93, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-19 and 23, and 16 more places -- 69.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
I Want A New Drug -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 42, 43, 47, 55, 79 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 10 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 12 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Want A New Drug?

111 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 Want A New Drug hard to play on drums?

46 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 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 Want A New Drug?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 24, 42, 43, 47, 55, 79 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED