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Rather Be · Clean Bandit

Rather Be · Clean Bandit
EXERCISE 19 OF 25
Run G2 · Part G (bars 70-80)
84 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
PART B
PART C
PART D
CHORUS
PART G
PART G
CHORUS 2
BREAK 2
OUTRO
8 groovesFGS1CD+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Rather Be on drums

110 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
110
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
31/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-44, snare through bars 45-46, silence through bars 47-48 and snare through bars 49-59, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-46, 49-59 and 70-79, and 1 more place -- 28.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    45
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Rather Be -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 80.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G, F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 25-41 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-70 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 70-110 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Rather Be?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. The room plays it at any tempo from a quarter of that up to the written one, against the record where the record can follow.

Is Rather Be hard to play on drums?

31 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

110 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Rather Be?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 40 and 80.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 110 BARS ANALYSED