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Note To Self · From First To Last

EXERCISE 14 OF 69
Fill at bar 22 and 34 (a small one)
90 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART U
PART Y
PART AB
PART Y
PART AA
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesOHBUY+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 10
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Note To Self on drums

170 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, ride through bars 19-21, hi-hat through bars 22-44, ride through bars 45-76 and toms through bars 77-100, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 105-108, 113-118 and 123-126, and 1 more place -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    105              106
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
FT |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-----x-|x-x-----x-x-----|
Note To Self -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 28, 32, 34 and 49 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- AB, H -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-139 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part H and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part U -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Note To Self?

170 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 Note To Self 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Note To Self?

11 fills to learn, played 55 times: bars 18, 22, 24, 28, 32, 34 and 49 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED