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Selfish · Jordan Davis

Selfish · Jordan Davis
EXERCISE 1 OF 20
Groove B -- Chorus
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0 / 20 PASSED · 50 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBDFS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Selfish on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
44/100

hi-hat through bars 3-40, ride through bars 41-46, kick and crashes through bars 47-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-39, 50-53 and 55, and 4 more places -- 71.4% 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-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Selfish -- 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 44, 49, 54, 56 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 41-50 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Selfish?

90 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 Selfish hard to play on drums?

44 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 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Selfish?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 44, 49, 54, 56 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED