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She Plays Bass · Beabadoobee

EXERCISE 27 OF 39
Fill at bar 72 (a small one)
61 / 115 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART S7
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesDCS9S1T+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She Plays Bass on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, ride through bars 49-81, silence through bars 82-86 and ride through bars 87-97, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 10 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--g----x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
She Plays Bass -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 48, 54 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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, C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 35-52 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 66-81 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 79-115 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is She Plays Bass?

136 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 She Plays Bass hard to play on drums?

61 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 She Plays Bass?

10 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 16, 32, 36, 40, 48, 54 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED