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just groove me · Dave Weckl

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove V -- Part V
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART Z
PART AH
PART AK
PART V
OUTRO
8 groovesAVAKAHZ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play just groove me on drums

151 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 6:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
6:15
DIFFICULTY
74/100

hi-hat through bars 1-60, ride through bars 61-86, hi-hat through bars 87-93, snare through bars 94-96, hi-hat through bars 97-109 and toms through bars 110-124, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 40-51, 55 and 97 -- 9.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---------------x---------------|
just groove me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 18, 19, 61, 62, 70, 85 and 41 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- V, A -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is just groove me?

96 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 groove me hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 6:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 20 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 just groove me?

8 fills to learn, played 47 times: bars 18, 19, 61, 62, 70, 85 and 41 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED