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Just Give Me A Reason · Pink

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 8 PASSED · 65 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just Give Me A Reason on drums

73 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
73
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-73.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-12, 14-47 and 50-72 -- 95.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-xxx-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Just Give Me A Reason -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 6 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Just Give Me A Reason?

95 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 Just Give Me A Reason hard to play on drums?

40 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

73 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Just Give Me A Reason?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 73.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 73 BARS ANALYSED