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T-Shirt Song · Don Broco

T-Shirt Song · Don Broco
EXERCISE 23 OF 38
Run G1 · Verse (bars 35-40)
67 / 88 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
PART C
CHORUS
VERSE
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesMCS9GS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play T-Shirt Song on drums

88 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
88
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, snare through bars 3-6, hi-hat through bars 7-15, silence through bars 16-18, hi-hat through bars 19-22 and snare through bars 23-30, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 45-47, and 7 more places -- 38.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-------|
T-Shirt Song -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 22, 26, 44, 48, 52 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- M -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part S2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Break and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Verse -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-57 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is T-Shirt Song?

98 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 T-Shirt Song hard to play on drums?

48 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

88 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 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 T-Shirt Song?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 22, 26, 44, 48, 52 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 88 BARS ANALYSED