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Let You Down · Three Days Grace

EXERCISE 9 OF 39
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-12)
64 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGAICMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Let You Down on drums

106 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 85 BPM, 3:45 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
85 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-28, toms through bars 29-31, hi-hat through bars 32-64, snare through bars 65-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 21-26, 41-46 and 49-54, and 4 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21           22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-----------|------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-|x-x-x-o-o-o-|
SD |------x---x-|------x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x---|xx-x-x--x---|
Let You Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 20, 28, 32 and 13 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- G, A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-21 -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 17-65 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-58 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Let You Down?

85 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Let You Down hard to play on drums?

64 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 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 Let You Down?

8 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 12, 16, 19, 20, 28, 32 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED