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If You Could Only See · Tonic

EXERCISE 1 OF 13
Groove D -- Chorus 2
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PART S1
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDES1GS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If You Could Only See on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
25/100

toms through bar 1, silence through bars 2-15, snare through bars 16-27, kick and crashes through bars 28-31, snare through bars 32-55 and kick and crashes through bars 56-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16-19, 32-47 and 64-75, and 1 more place -- 50.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x----x-x-----|
If You Could Only See -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- D, E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 27-77 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is If You Could Only See?

100 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 You Could Only See hard to play on drums?

25 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 13 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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