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Thank U · Alanis Morissette

EXERCISE 5 OF 16
Run C1 · Part C (bars 16-21)
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0 / 16 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBS5CFS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thank U on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 4:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-15, snare through bars 16-21, hi-hat through bars 22-60, silence through bars 61-68 and hi-hat through bars 69-89, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-15, 22-60 and 70-89 -- 83.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Thank U -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 93 and 94.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 16-70 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Thank U?

92 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 Thank U hard to play on drums?

39 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Thank U?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 93 and 94.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED