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Making Friends · Lagwagon

EXERCISE 29 OF 43
Groove O -- Part O
62 / 85 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
PART A
CHORUS
PART G
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART O
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDAGOR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Making Friends on drums

85 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
85
LENGTH
2:12
DIFFICULTY
52/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-20, ride through bars 21-24, toms through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-38 and toms through bars 39-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13-15, and 4 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---x-x-|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-----|
Making Friends -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 20, 46, 58 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-16 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-42 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-57 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 61-78 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Making Friends?

155 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 Making Friends hard to play on drums?

52 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

85 bars, about 2:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Making Friends?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 8, 10, 12, 20, 46, 58 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 85 BARS ANALYSED