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Thinking Of You · A Perfect Circle

EXERCISE 13 OF 55
Groove I -- Outro 2
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CHORUS
PART D
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART I
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCIZABF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thinking Of You on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 4:12 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
55/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-55, ride through bars 56-59, hi-hat through bars 60-99, snare through bars 100-101 and hi-hat through bars 102-103, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-8, 11-16 and 18, and 12 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |X---X-X---X---X-|
Thinking Of You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 50, 51, 54, 55, 91 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- C, AB -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-98 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 49-90 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Thinking Of You?

152 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 Thinking Of You hard to play on drums?

55 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?

164 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 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 Thinking Of You?

10 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 1, 50, 51, 54, 55, 91 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED