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The Worst Person Alive · G Flip

EXERCISE 3 OF 27
Groove N -- Outro
60 / 119 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
4 groovesBNIS4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Worst Person Alive on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:30
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-81, toms through bars 82-85, hi-hat through bars 86-98, snare through bars 99-115 and hi-hat through bars 116-119.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-16, 19-26 and 36-50, and 5 more places -- 50.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
The Worst Person Alive -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 99, 107, 112, 113 and 114.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-101 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Worst Person Alive?

136 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 Worst Person Alive 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Worst Person Alive?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 99, 107, 112, 113 and 114.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED