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Play With Me · Extreme

EXERCISE 13 OF 37
Groove K
126 / 175 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART C
CHORUS
PART N
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHCNRB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Play With Me on drums

175 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 3:27 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
175
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-11, snare through bars 12-17, hi-hat through bars 18-105, snare through bars 106-107 and hi-hat through bars 108-115, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-24, 26-36 and 38-41, and 11 more places -- 60.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 107, 149 and 172.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- H -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 108-132 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 129-166 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Play With Me?

202 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 Play With Me hard to play on drums?

53 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

175 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Play With Me?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 12, 13, 17, 107, 149 and 172.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 175 BARS ANALYSED