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Part Of Me · Tool

EXERCISE 7 OF 41
Groove E
37 / 108 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART T
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDS9TJN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Part Of Me on drums

108 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:08 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 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
108
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-20, hi-hat through bars 21-33, ride through bars 34-35, hi-hat through bars 36-39 and ride through bars 40-43, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 2 more places -- 18.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x------------ggx|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-x-----xxxx|
Part Of Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 34, 40, 41 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-59 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Part Of Me?

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 Part Of Me hard to play on drums?

62 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 Part Of Me?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 34, 40, 41 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED