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Simple · Booze & Glory

Simple · Booze & Glory
EXERCISE 33 OF 48
Join Chorus 2 to Part S6 (bars 90-92)
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0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S6
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S6
PART W
OUTRO
8 groovesGBWAAE+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Simple on drums

166 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:46 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
166
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, toms through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-27, toms through bars 28-29, hi-hat through bars 30-55 and toms through bars 56-59, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-27, 30-36 and 43-44, and 14 more places -- 51.9% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Simple -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 37 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- G, W -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 90-120 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Simple?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Simple hard to play on drums?

55 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

166 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Simple?

11 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 19, 20, 21, 28, 29, 37 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 166 BARS ANALYSED