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Still Counting · Volbeat

EXERCISE 4 OF 41
Groove B -- Part B
32 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDBQHF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Still Counting on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
67/100

snare through bars 3-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-26, snare through bars 27-42, hi-hat through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-62, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 43-49 and 63-69, and 2 more places -- 30.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o---o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-------x-x-----|
Still Counting -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 42, 54, 62, 70, 74, 90 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-40 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 56-71 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 70-94 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Still Counting?

100 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 Still Counting hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Still Counting?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 42, 54, 62, 70, 74, 90 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED