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imnotsureyet · baaa

imnotsureyet · baaa
EXERCISE 12 OF 41
8-bar fill at bar 24
40 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS
PART AD
PART AK
BREAK 2
PART AS
OUTRO
BREAK 3
9 groovesNADAAKAS+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play imnotsureyet on drums

101 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

51 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
101
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
51/100

ride through bar 1, snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49 and snare through bars 50-52, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-40 and 42-48 -- 11.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |----x-------x---|
HF |----------x-----|
imnotsureyet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 24 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- AD, N -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 34-56 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part AK -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-88 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part AS and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is imnotsureyet?

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 imnotsureyet hard to play on drums?

51 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 imnotsureyet?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 24 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED