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The Worst of Both Worlds · Structures

EXERCISE 17 OF 58
Groove N -- Part N (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 58 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N, PART B
PART D
PART K
PART N
PART B
PART U
CHORUS
PART AO
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesAEDBASU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Worst of Both Worlds on drums

139 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:15 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
139
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-25, snare through bars 26-48, toms through bars 49-53, snare through bars 54-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-76, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-3, 10-11 and 18-19, and 4 more places -- 10.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                                3
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
T2 |--------------------------------|------------x-------------------|
BD |x-----------x-x-----x---x-------|----x---------------x-x-x-x-x-x-|
The Worst of Both Worlds -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, F (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 5 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 30-39 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part B and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part R and Part S -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Worst of Both Worlds?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Worst of Both Worlds hard to play on drums?

58 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

139 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 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.

How many fills are in The Worst of Both Worlds?

7 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 7, 9, 11, 15, 17 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 139 BARS ANALYSED