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people watching · Sam Fender

EXERCISE 1 OF 15
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesBS3S5S7S1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play people watching on drums

198 bars at 161 BPM -- fast, and 4:55 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
161 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
198
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 2-12, silence through bars 13-42, hi-hat through bars 43-54, silence through bars 55-60, hi-hat through bars 61-126 and silence through bars 127-132, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-12, 43-48 and 50-54, and 7 more places -- 95.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
people watching -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 49, 105, 121, 153 and 197.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 53-122 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 61-169 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is people watching?

161 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 people watching hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

198 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in people watching?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 49, 105, 121, 153 and 197.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 198 BARS ANALYSED