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I Was Just a Kid · Nothing But Thieves

EXERCISE 11 OF 53
Groove L
131 / 189 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART M
CHORUS
PART M
PART Q
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGRQHW+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Was Just a Kid on drums

189 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-58, snare through bars 59-62, hi-hat through bars 63-64, snare through bars 65-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-124, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24, 60 and 64, and 3 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
I Was Just a Kid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 14 more.

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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 1-54 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-101 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Was Just a Kid?

180 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 Was Just a Kid hard to play on drums?

51 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Was Just a Kid?

8 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED