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Normal People Things · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 23 OF 44
Groove N
96 / 120 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
PART B
CHORUS
PART H
PART M
PART Q
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDHBMQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Normal People Things on drums

120 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

58 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
120
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
58/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-10, snare through bars 11-47, ride through bars 48-61, snare through bars 62-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-72, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 31.7% 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
SD |r-r-r-r-r-r-r-r-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Normal People Things -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 55, 62, 63, 79, 87 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Normal People Things?

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 Normal People Things hard to play on drums?

58 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?

120 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 10 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 Normal People Things?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 1, 55, 62, 63, 79, 87 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED