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I Was King · One Ok Rock

EXERCISE 7 OF 36
Groove D
46 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGBCJN+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Was King on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-48 and snare through bars 49-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-8, 49 and 51, and 7 more places -- 23.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------xx----|
I Was King -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 44, 73, 74 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-50 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-88 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Was King?

96 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 Was King hard to play on drums?

47 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 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 Was King?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 28, 32, 36, 44, 73, 74 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED