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If I Ever Get You Back · Morgan Wallen

EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 19 PASSED · 57 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If I Ever Get You Back on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:50 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:50
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bar 1 and hi-hat through bars 2-100.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 27 more places -- 57% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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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-------|
If I Ever Get You Back -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-95 -- 9 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is If I Ever Get You Back?

140 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 If I Ever Get You Back hard to play on drums?

52 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 23 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 If I Ever Get You Back?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 5, 29, 33, 37, 41, 45 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED