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Thank You · Clairo

EXERCISE 3 OF 16
Groove D
59 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCHS2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thank You on drums

87 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-19, and 6 more places -- 65.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Thank You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- C -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Thank You?

107 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 You hard to play on drums?

43 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

87 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED