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The Reason · Hoobastank

EXERCISE 13 OF 16
Run B2 · Outro (bars 57-60)
72 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 16 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
PART S4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBES4S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Reason on drums

77 bars of 4/4 at a walking 83 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
83 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
77
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100

hi-hat through bars 2-36, ride through bars 37-53, silence through bars 54-56, hi-hat through bars 57-60 and ride through bars 61-77.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 5-15 and 17, and 6 more places -- 41.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 52 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part S4 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Reason?

83 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 Reason 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 22 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

77 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 The Reason?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 16, 52 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 77 BARS ANALYSED