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The People That We Love · Bush

EXERCISE 6 OF 24
Groove B
81 / 131 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT
BREAK
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART C
PART H
PART A
OUTRO
7 groovesECHAS1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The People That We Love on drums

131 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:51 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
131
LENGTH
3:51
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-98, kick and crashes through bars 99-100 and snare through bars 101-110, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-24, 29-36 and 67-74 -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-g-x-g-x-x-x-g-|x-g-x-g-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x---------x-|
BD |--x-----x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
The People That We Love -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and the Break 2 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-110 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The People That We Love?

136 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 The People That We Love hard to play on drums?

49 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 48 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

131 bars, about 3:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in The People That We Love?

2 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 131 BARS ANALYSED