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Mr. Know It All · Teddy Swims

EXERCISE 11 OF 14
Play the whole song with the record
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0 / 14 PASSED · 103 BARS LIT
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesBCS1S5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Mr. Know It All on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 2-91, snare through bars 92-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-103.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-21, 27-52 and 54-77, and 2 more places -- 88.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---------|
Mr. Know It All -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 79.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 20-78 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Mr. Know It All?

126 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 Mr. Know It All hard to play on drums?

45 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Mr. Know It All?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 53 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED