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The Last One Standing · Resilience

EXERCISE 3 OF 101
Groove L -- Part L
53 / 229 BARS COVERED
0 / 101 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART AH
PART Q
PART L
16 groovesXQNTL+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 21
LAND · 21
RUN · 2
JOIN · 19
LINK · 13
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Last One Standing on drums

229 bars at 189 BPM -- fast, and 4:51 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
189 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
229
LENGTH
4:51
DIFFICULTY
67/100

toms through bars 1-24, hi-hat through bars 25-74, toms through bars 75-76, ride through bars 77-80, hi-hat through bars 81-90 and toms through bars 91-92, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-47, 61-67 and 101-107, and 2 more places -- 15.7% 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
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Last One Standing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

21 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 22, 24, 32, 41, 51, 52 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- Q -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-33 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-45 -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Bars 48-61 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-64 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Last One Standing?

189 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 The Last One Standing hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

229 bars, about 4:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Last One Standing?

21 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 22, 24, 32, 41, 51, 52 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 229 BARS ANALYSED