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I Will Survive · Cake

EXERCISE 21 OF 64
Run O1 · Part O (bars 37-48)
67 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART H
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART K
PART AG
OUTRO
9 groovesCOKGAG+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Will Survive on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-80, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-13, 15 and 17-23, and 5 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 54, 56 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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, K -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 24-73 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-40 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part R -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part R and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Will Survive?

95 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 Survive hard to play on drums?

58 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 Survive?

14 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 24, 32, 39, 40, 54, 56 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED