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The Remedy (I Won't Worry) · Jason Mraz

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove B -- Chorus 2
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0 / 32 PASSED · 39 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBDEJAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Remedy (I Won't Worry) on drums

100 bars of 4/4 at a walking 94 BPM, 4:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
94 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
100
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-52 and ride through bars 53-60, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 25-31 and 33-35, and 6 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x-x------|
The Remedy (I Won't Worry) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 36, 52, 60 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 3-70 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 32-64 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-80 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Remedy (I Won't Worry)?

94 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 Remedy (I Won't Worry) hard to play on drums?

55 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

100 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 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 Remedy (I Won't Worry)?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 32, 36, 52, 60 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 100 BARS ANALYSED