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MakeDamnSure · Taking Back Sunday

EXERCISE 34 OF 40
Fill at bar 105 (a small one)
101 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART M
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesIDGBM+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play MakeDamnSure on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 141 BPM, about 3:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
141 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 2-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-47, toms through bars 48-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-56, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-33, 58-73 and 98-104 -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
MakeDamnSure -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 49, 57, 89 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- I, D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Bars 14-42 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-81 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 80-90 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 86-101 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is MakeDamnSure?

141 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 MakeDamnSure hard to play on drums?

48 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 MakeDamnSure?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 17, 25, 41, 49, 57, 89 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED