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Im still here · John Rzeznik

Im still here · John Rzeznik
EXERCISE 25 OF 47
Groove N
111 / 156 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART A
PART C
BREAK 2
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
9 groovesGALCS6+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Im still here on drums

156 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 111 BPM, 4:55 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
156
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 1-18, snare through bars 19-24, silence through bars 25-30, hi-hat through bars 31-45, ride through bars 46-51 and silence through bars 52-59, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-18, 31-36 and 145-150 -- 22.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x-----------|
Im still here -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- A, G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-118 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-65 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-79 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part L and the Chorus 3 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Im still here?

111 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Im still here hard to play on drums?

47 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

156 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Im still here?

7 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 62, 63, 64 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 156 BARS ANALYSED