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Maybe I am a terrible person · Nate Dawg

EXERCISE 19 OF 62
Groove S -- Chorus
53 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 62 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART AB, CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART AB
PART K
PART S11
PART AM
PART AT
PART AB
CHORUS 2
12 groovesSABKATF+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Maybe I am a terrible person on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
68/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, snare through bars 25-32, ride through bars 33-48, snare through bars 49-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-72, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 113-120 and 145-147 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    113
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Maybe I am a terrible person -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 80, 84, 86 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 55 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 -- AT, X (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Maybe I am a terrible person?

140 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Maybe I am a terrible person hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 55 exercises over 19 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 Maybe I am a terrible person?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 24, 28, 32, 80, 84, 86 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED