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Positive Outlook · Youth Of Today

Positive Outlook · Youth Of Today
EXERCISE 5 OF 33
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
7 groovesDRIOS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Positive Outlook on drums

64 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 1:10 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
1:10
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-21, kick and crashes through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-30, toms through bars 31-35 and snare through bars 36-38, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-11, 13 and 15, and 3 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 31, 32 and 6 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-26 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-40 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-64 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Positive Outlook?

220 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 Positive Outlook hard to play on drums?

60 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 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 1:10 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, 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 Positive Outlook?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 12, 19, 31, 32 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED