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If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn · Sleeping With Sirens

EXERCISE 18 OF 66
Join Part D to Part S2 (bars 15-17)
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0 / 66 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART S2
PART D
PART S2
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S8
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesOAKDKH+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn on drums

140 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-17, silence through bars 18-20, hi-hat through bars 21-55, snare through bars 56-60 and hi-hat through bars 61-87, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 39-45, 47-49 and 51-53, and 10 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    39               40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------|X---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|--x-x-x-x-x-xxxx|
If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- O -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part S2 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 15-32 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn hard to play on drums?

63 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?

140 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 14 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 If I'm James Dean, You're Audrey Hepburn?

18 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 33 more.

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