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Thinking Of You (drums polished) · Katy perry

EXERCISE 1 OF 35
Groove G -- Outro
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGDABS1BFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
JOIN · 4
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thinking Of You (drums polished) on drums

72 bars, 3:46, at 74 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
74 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
64/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-40, ride through bars 41-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-52, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-17, 41-43 and 46, and 4 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--xx---x-x--|
Thinking Of You (drums polished) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-25 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Thinking Of You (drums polished)?

74 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Thinking Of You (drums polished) hard to play on drums?

64 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?

72 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. 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 (drums polished)?

10 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 18 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED