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I Wasn't There · The jins

I Wasn't There · The jins
EXERCISE 15 OF 31
Join Chorus 2 to Part F (bars 33-35)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART F
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART H
PART S7
PART B
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCHFBQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Wasn't There on drums

68 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, snare through bars 15-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24 and ride through bars 25-26, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-11, 21-23 and 27, and 1 more place -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|x-----x-x-------|
I Wasn't There -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-34 -- 9 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-55 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 49-66 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Wasn't There?

118 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 Wasn't There hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 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 Wasn't There?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 32, 40 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED