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Ironic. · Alanis Morissette

EXERCISE 1 OF 10
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 10 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesCS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ironic. on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:11 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-14, hi-hat through bars 15-48, silence through bars 49-61 and hi-hat through bars 62-69.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-31, 33-48 and 62-69 -- 93.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 61.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- C -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ironic.?

86 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 Ironic. hard to play on drums?

53 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 2 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Ironic.?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 32 and 61.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED