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It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World · Krobak

EXERCISE 22 OF 37
Groove O
149 / 216 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
PART S4
PART H
PART I
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBS4EIC+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World on drums

216 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 10:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
216
LENGTH
10:03
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-96, silence through bars 97-119, hi-hat through bars 120-151, ride through bars 152-213 and snare through bars 214-216.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-10, 13-34 and 36, and 14 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    36
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|
SD |x---------------|
It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 137, 139, 143, 145, 147, 149 and 6 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 -- B, E, C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 5-161 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 94-139 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Bars 132-161 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part E and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World?

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 It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World 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 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

216 bars, about 10:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 It's Snowing Like It's the End of the World?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 137, 139, 143, 145, 147, 149 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 216 BARS ANALYSED