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Thank You For The Music · ABBA

EXERCISE 10 OF 25
Groove G
49 / 90 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART S2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
BREAK
CHORUS 3
7 groovesDS2S6CS9+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thank You For The Music on drums

90 bars, 6:33, at 55 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
55 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
90
LENGTH
6:33
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-20, hi-hat through bars 21-64, silence through bars 65-72, hi-hat through bars 73-88 and ride through bars 89-90.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22, 24 and 26, and 10 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Thank You For The Music -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 54, 76, 82 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 61-87 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Thank You For The Music?

55 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Thank You For The Music hard to play on drums?

45 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

90 bars, about 6:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 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 Thank You For The Music?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 34, 42, 50, 54, 76, 82 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 90 BARS ANALYSED