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EXERCISE 30 OF 31
Run I3 · Outro 2 (bars 71-122)
115 / 122 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 52 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIEDLS3+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play In The Army Now on drums

122 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 4:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
122
LENGTH
4:37
DIFFICULTY
43/100

ride through bars 1-7 and hi-hat through bars 8-122.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 47-49, 51-56 and 59-66, and 9 more places -- 48.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    48
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-------|
In The Army Now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 41, 46, 70, 94 and 102.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- I, E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 50-78 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-71 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is In The Army Now?

105 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 In The Army Now hard to play on drums?

43 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

122 bars, about 4:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 In The Army Now?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 40, 41, 46, 70, 94 and 102.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 122 BARS ANALYSED