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Iris · Goo Goo Dolls

EXERCISE 27 OF 47
Groove N
73 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART Q
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDBQS10V+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Iris on drums

106 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 78 BPM, 4:30 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
78 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-71, ride through bars 72-76, silence through bars 77-83 and hi-hat through bars 84-106.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-19, 33-39 and 49, and 3 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28 and 25 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, D -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-29 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 27-45 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-60 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part Q and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part Q and Part V -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Iris?

78 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 Iris hard to play on drums?

57 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 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Iris?

11 fills to learn, played 31 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 26, 27, 28 and 25 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED