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Television/So Far So Good · Rex Orange County

Television/So Far So Good · Rex Orange County
EXERCISE 29 OF 40
Run S71 · Break 2 (bars 53-54)
80 / 100 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE BREAK 2
PART B
CHORUS
PART L
PART M
BREAK 2
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesGBFLK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Television/So Far So Good on drums

100 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 2:25 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
44/100

toms through bars 1-22, ride through bars 23-28, snare through bars 29-30, ride through bars 31-36, hi-hat through bars 37-50 and silence through bars 51-54, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-26, 31-32 and 55-58, and 3 more places -- 18.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Television/So Far So Good -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 22, 30, 54, 62, 86 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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, B, D (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-31 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 43-55 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-70 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part N and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Television/So Far So Good?

166 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 Television/So Far So Good hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Television/So Far So Good?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 20, 22, 30, 54, 62, 86 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED