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theme of us · cinema staff

EXERCISE 18 OF 81
Join Part I to Part J (bars 20-22)
84 / 157 BARS COVERED
0 / 81 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I, PART J
PART C
PART I
PART J
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART AF
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesPICJR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play theme of us on drums

157 bars at 186 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
186 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-10, toms through bars 11-13 and silence through bars 14-15, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-42 and 57, and 7 more places -- 13.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
theme of us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 11, 12, 24, 28, 33, 34 and 38 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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 -- P, J -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-106 -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-74 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 33-71 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is theme of us?

186 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 theme of us hard to play on drums?

54 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 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 theme of us?

18 fills to learn, played 44 times: bars 11, 12, 24, 28, 33, 34 and 38 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED