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I Will · christopher cross

EXERCISE 6 OF 23
Groove F -- Outro
88 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Will on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
35/100

silence through bars 1-5 and hi-hat through bars 6-116.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-19, 27-28 and 30-36, and 9 more places -- 60.7% 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-------|
BD |x---------------|
I Will -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 21, 37, 52, 53, 61 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part F and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Will?

128 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 Will hard to play on drums?

35 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 15 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Will?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 21, 37, 52, 53, 61 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED