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So Here We Are · Bloc Party

EXERCISE 1 OF 27
Groove C -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesCGLS1B+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Here We Are on drums

145 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 3:45 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-69, silence through bars 70-71, hi-hat through bars 72-77 and silence through bars 78-80, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 41-47, and 5 more places -- 47.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25               26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x---|o---x-x-o-x-x---|
SD |----x--x----x-xx|----x--x--x---xx|
T2 |----------------|------------x---|
FT |----------------|------------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|x-------x-------|
So Here We Are -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 80, 112 and 144.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, G -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 67-104 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 101-113 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 109-130 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is So Here We Are?

155 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 So Here We Are hard to play on drums?

60 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how often it moves around the kit. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 6 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in So Here We Are?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 80, 112 and 144.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED