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My Friends Over You · New Found Glory

EXERCISE 16 OF 60
Groove I
105 / 162 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOFXRK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Friends Over You on drums

162 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
162
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-27, hi-hat through bars 28-30 and snare through bars 31-54, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-37, 39-44 and 77-83, and 6 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    31
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
My Friends Over You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 38 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, A -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part K -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Friends Over You?

180 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 My Friends Over You hard to play on drums?

61 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

162 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 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 My Friends Over You?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 7, 8, 16, 24, 30, 38 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 162 BARS ANALYSED