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Song I like 4 · Zacharie Boivin

Song I like 4 · Zacharie Boivin
EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART AC
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGLAABAC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Song I like 4 on drums

107 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
66/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-22, snare through bars 23-24, ride through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-58 and snare through bars 59-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21, and 16 more places -- 17.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-------x-|
Song I like 4 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 23, 24, 28 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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, L -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 11-60 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 21-41 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Song I like 4?

186 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 Song I like 4 hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 Song I like 4?

14 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 12, 20, 23, 24, 28 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED