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Just What I Needed · The Cars

Just What I Needed · The Cars
EXERCISE 27 OF 30
Groove I -- Outro 2
112 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBEAHIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Just What I Needed on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-117.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-23, 25-27 and 29-31, and 16 more places -- 42.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x-----|
Just What I Needed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 92, 102 and 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 67-86 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 4 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Just What I Needed?

128 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 What I Needed hard to play on drums?

58 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 What I Needed?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 24, 92, 102 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED