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LIKE HIM · CAUTION

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove E -- Chorus
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0 / 37 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART P
PART L
BREAK 3
11 groovesEAS13GL+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play LIKE HIM on drums

100 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:29 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-26, snare through bars 27-34, hi-hat through bars 35-48, snare through bars 49-51 and hi-hat through bars 52-74, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 11 more places -- 14.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x-xxx---xxxxxxxx|
LIKE HIM -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 42, 71, 92, 93, 94 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D, J -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 30-43 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 39-58 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 62-80 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 83-98 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is LIKE HIM?

160 BPM, in 4/4, 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 LIKE HIM hard to play on drums?

54 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 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in LIKE HIM?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 10, 42, 71, 92, 93, 94 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED