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It Was Just an Accident v2 · Soilent Green

EXERCISE 8 OF 73
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 73 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART J
PART N
PART W
PART AH
CHORUS 3
PART AX
OUTRO
10 groovesDWAXAHJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Was Just an Accident v2 on drums

166 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
79/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-12, snare through bars 13-14 and hi-hat through bars 15-17, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 10-12 and 15-16, and 10 more places -- 15.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
It Was Just an Accident v2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 56, 64, 72 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is It Was Just an Accident v2?

190 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is It Was Just an Accident v2 hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 94 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 It Was Just an Accident v2?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 56, 64, 72 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED