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My Favourite Game · The Cardigans

EXERCISE 1 OF 17
Groove C
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CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesADEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Favourite Game on drums

129 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
129
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-94, snare through bars 95-96 and hi-hat through bars 97-129.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6, 8 and 10, and 35 more places -- 29.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 46, 95, 96 and 117.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- C, D -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is My Favourite Game?

144 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 My Favourite Game 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

129 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in My Favourite Game?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 5, 46, 95, 96 and 117.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 129 BARS ANALYSED