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Needs work · FUBAR

EXERCISE 14 OF 18
Groove S
38 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART A
PART E
PART G
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
6 groovesS6HPAE+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Needs work on drums

42 bars at 210 BPM -- fast, and 0:46 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
210 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
42
LENGTH
0:46
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-25, ride through bars 26-30 and toms through bars 31-32, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 19-21 and 23-25 -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    19                                               20
    1...........2...........3...........4........... 1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------x-----------------------|x-----------------------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------x-----|------------------------x-----------------x-----|
BD |------------------x--x--------------x-----------|------------x-----------------x--x--x--x--x--x--|
Needs work -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-36 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Outro and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Needs work?

210 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Needs work hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

42 bars, about 0:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 8 sittings, about 21 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 42 BARS ANALYSED