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The World We Used To Know · Scorpions

EXERCISE 1 OF 14
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 14 PASSED · 40 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The World We Used To Know on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
42/100

toms through bars 1-34, hi-hat through bars 35-42, toms through bars 43-58, hi-hat through bars 59-74, toms through bars 75-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-95.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-11, 13 and 15, and 16 more places -- 42.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |----------g-----|
FT |--------------g-|
BD |x-----x---------|
The World We Used To Know -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

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 -- A, E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The World We Used To Know?

105 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 World We Used To Know hard to play on drums?

42 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 17 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

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