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Im still standing · Elthon Jhon

Im still standing · Elthon Jhon
EXERCISE 5 OF 22
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-28)
98 / 140 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 28 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART C
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBACDEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Im still standing on drums

140 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:18 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:18
DIFFICULTY
46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, snare through bars 29-49, hi-hat through bars 50-63, snare through bars 64-70, hi-hat through bars 71-77 and snare through bars 78-91, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-49, 64-70 and 78-84, and 2 more places -- 45% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Im still standing -- 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 21 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, A -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-56 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 55-78 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Bars 83-127 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Im still standing?

170 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 Im still standing hard to play on drums?

46 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED