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Real World · Matchbox Twenty

EXERCISE 25 OF 33
Groove P
103 / 111 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 7, PART F
PART C
PART C
CHORUS 4
PART C
CHORUS 7
PART F
OUTRO
3 groovesBCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Real World on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 118 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
118 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-21, hi-hat through bars 22-33, ride through bars 34-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-45, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-5, 14-16 and 30-33, and 18 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x---x-|
Real World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 29, 37, 49 and 10 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-33 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-45 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-78 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 79-92 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Real World?

118 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 Real World hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Real World?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 13, 17, 29, 37, 49 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED