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EXERCISE 8 OF 33
Run C1 · Part C (bars 4-13)
82 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFCOS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Of All People on drums

111 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:31 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
2:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-35, snare through bars 36-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-55, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 9 and 13, and 17 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    4
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |------o---o---o-|
SD |------x-------x-|
BD |x---x-----x-x---|
Of All People -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 46-73 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 73-101 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Of All People?

176 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 Of All People hard to play on drums?

50 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 2:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Of All People?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 20, 24, 28, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED