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New Computers · Girlfriends

EXERCISE 10 OF 19
Groove H
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COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesFIBS1CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Computers on drums

95 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 1:57 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
1:57
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-31, hi-hat through bars 32-38, snare through bars 39-40, hi-hat through bars 41-46 and snare through bars 47-48, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-18, 21-22 and 25-26, and 6 more places -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
SD |r-x-x-x-r---x---r-------r-------|
BD |x-------x-----------x-------x---|
New Computers -- 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 18 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, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is New Computers?

195 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 New Computers hard to play on drums?

56 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 1:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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