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Is It Really You? · Loathe

EXERCISE 17 OF 24
Groove Q
97 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Is It Really You? on drums

116 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 3:10 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-49, snare through bars 50-68, hi-hat through bars 69-85 and toms through bars 86-93, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-21 and 54-60, and 4 more places -- 44.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |X-x-x-X-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Is It Really You? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 53, 84, 85, 99 and 100.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, F -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Is It Really You??

110 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 Is It Really You? hard to play on drums?

55 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?

116 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Is It Really You??

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 49, 53, 84, 85, 99 and 100.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED