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EXERCISE 12 OF 38
Fill at bar 42 (a small one)
68 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesAQS4S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Show Yourself on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-30, hi-hat through bars 31-38, snare through bars 39-68, ride through bars 69-81 and toms through bars 82-84, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 14 more places -- 54.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 30 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 67-85 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Show Yourself?

135 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 Show Yourself hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 26 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 Show Yourself?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 28, 30 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED