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She Used to Be Mine · Brooks and Dunn

EXERCISE 17 OF 20
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 34-36)
75 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesEABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play She Used to Be Mine on drums

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
41/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-23, 25-31 and 33-34, and 6 more places -- 48.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
She Used to Be Mine -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 32.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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 -- E, A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-21 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is She Used to Be Mine?

88 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 Used to Be Mine hard to play on drums?

41 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 3:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in She Used to Be Mine?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 20 and 32.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED