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Simple Minds - Dont You Forget About Me - Argos · GREATEST CHRISTMAS ADVERT EVER

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EXERCISE 15 OF 20
Join Part M to Outro (bars 64-66)
60 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 20 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFMS1LA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Simple Minds - Dont You Forget About Me - Argos on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-13, hi-hat through bars 14-39, toms through bars 40-41, kick and crashes through bars 42-45, hi-hat through bars 46-47 and toms through bars 48-61, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 21 and 25, and 9 more places -- 19.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x--------x--------x-----x-----------------------|
Simple Minds - Dont You Forget About Me - Argos -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 23, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 11 more.

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 -- F, D -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part M -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 62-77 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Simple Minds - Dont You Forget About Me - Argos?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Simple Minds - Dont You Forget About Me - Argos hard to play on drums?

63 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Simple Minds - Dont You Forget About Me - Argos?

3 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 15, 23, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED