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If You Still Hate Me · Ill Niño

EXERCISE 1 OF 38
Groove M -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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PART C
PART G
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMIVGC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play If You Still Hate Me on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 2:53 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-24, toms through bars 25-27, snare through bars 28-48, toms through bars 49-51 and snare through bars 52-63, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 28-35, 52-59 and 84-87 -- 20.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    28               29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x----x--|--------x-------|
BD |x-x-----------xx|x-x-------x-x-xx|
If You Still Hate Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 25, 26, 27 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- M, I -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-28 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 18-41 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-80 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is If You Still Hate Me?

138 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 Still Hate Me hard to play on drums?

49 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 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 You Still Hate Me?

6 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 25, 26, 27 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED