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such a thrill to be with you again · drug bug

EXERCISE 22 OF 28
Join Part L to Chorus 2 (bars 59-61)
90 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
5 groovesFLS2S1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play such a thrill to be with you again on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 148 BPM, about 2:45 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
148 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
2:45
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, ride through bars 41-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-60, hi-hat through bars 61-81 and silence through bars 82-84, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-14, 17-22 and 25-30, and 4 more places -- 40.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-o-x-x-x-x-x---|
SD |----x--x------x-|-x--x--x----x-xx|
BD |x-------x-x-----|--x-----x-x-----|
such a thrill to be with you again -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 16, 23, 24 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-61 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 57-102 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is such a thrill to be with you again?

148 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 such a thrill to be with you again hard to play on drums?

61 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 2:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high 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 such a thrill to be with you again?

7 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 4, 6, 8, 16, 23, 24 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED