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The Words "Best Friend" Become Redefined · Chiodos

EXERCISE 11 OF 34
Hold Groove I for 8 bars -- Part I (bars 79-86)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART S4
PART G
PART I
PART S10
PART Q
OUTRO
11 groovesBS10S13IG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Words "Best Friend" Become Redefined on drums

171 bars at 220 BPM -- fast, and 3:07 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
220 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:07
DIFFICULTY
43/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-33, silence through bars 34-39, ride through bars 40-45, silence through bars 46-55, ride through bars 56-62 and toms through bars 63-95, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-32 -- 22.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----------------|x---------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|----x-----------|
The Words "Best Friend" Become Redefined -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 106, 114, 122, 154, 162 and 170.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- A (a two-bar phrase), I -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 42-78 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part I and Part S10 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part S10 and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 127-155 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Words "Best Friend" Become Redefined?

220 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 Words "Best Friend" Become Redefined hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 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, 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 Words "Best Friend" Become Redefined?

6 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 106, 114, 122, 154, 162 and 170.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED