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Meant to Be · Testament

EXERCISE 32 OF 61
Run O1 · Part O (bars 69-88)
109 / 160 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
COUNT-IN
PART S4
PART I
PART O
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVS4OS1I+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Meant to Be on drums

160 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
160
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21, silence through bars 22-57, hi-hat through bars 58-62, snare through bars 63-64 and ride through bars 65-72, and 18 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 75-76, 79-80 and 83-84, and 12 more places -- 24.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 57, 63, 65, 73, 74, 78 and 31 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- V, O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part S4 and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 65-89 -- 10 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 100-114 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Meant to Be?

122 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 Meant to Be hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

160 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Meant to Be?

18 fills to learn, played 37 times: bars 57, 63, 65, 73, 74, 78 and 31 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 160 BARS ANALYSED