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(Just Like) Starting Over · John Lennon

EXERCISE 8 OF 23
Run D1 · Part D (bars 18-29)
37 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
BREAK
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
7 groovesS8ES2DH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play (Just Like) Starting Over on drums

97 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 165 BPM, 3:29 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
165 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
43/100

snare through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-18, hi-hat through bars 19-65 and silence through bars 66-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20-29, 34-35 and 38-40, and 3 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x---x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
(Just Like) Starting Over -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 36, 46, 47, 55 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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, E -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-43 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is (Just Like) Starting Over?

165 BPM, in 6/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is (Just Like) Starting Over 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Like) Starting Over?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 36, 46, 47, 55 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED