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I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus · Beabadoobee

EXERCISE 1 OF 24
Groove F -- Outro 2
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0 / 24 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 81 BPM, 3:48 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
81 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
39/100

ride through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-23, ride through bars 24-33, snare through bars 34-50, ride through bars 51-52 and silence through bars 53-55, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 18 and 20-22, and 13 more places -- 33.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 36, 59, 63, 65, 66 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- F, B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus?

81 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 Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus hard to play on drums?

39 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wish I Was Stephen Malkmus?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 33, 36, 59, 63, 65, 66 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED