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Just As Was Told · Lift To Experience

Just As Was Told · Lift To Experience
EXERCISE 1 OF 78
Groove U -- Part U
0 / 217 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U, PART V
CHORUS
PART G
PART U
PART V
PART U
PART U
PART AN
PART AP
19 groovesS2APUVAN+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 5
JOIN · 19
LINK · 8
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just As Was Told on drums

217 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 6:03 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
217
LENGTH
6:03
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-39, ride through bars 40-42, snare through bars 43-48, toms through bars 49-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-57, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 76-79, 90 and 92, and 3 more places -- 8.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    76
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-------x-------------------x-------|
Just As Was Told -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 61, 65, 69, 83, 111, 150 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 71 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 -- U -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 41-63 -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-54 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part M -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Just As Was Told?

145 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Just As Was Told hard to play on drums?

62 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 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

217 bars, about 6:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 71 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Just As Was Told?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 61, 65, 69, 83, 111, 150 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 217 BARS ANALYSED