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Sit next to me · Foster the people studio version

Sit next to me · Foster the people studio version
EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove C -- Chorus
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0 / 14 PASSED · 62 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS1BS3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sit next to me on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 97 BPM, 3:38 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
97 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
40/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-65, silence through bars 66-68, kick and crashes through bars 69-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-88.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-31 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 79.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 64 and 88.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro 2 -- 2 exercises, about 6 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sit next to me?

97 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 Sit next to me hard to play on drums?

40 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?

88 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 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 Sit next to me?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 64 and 88.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED