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This How screams a Why · David A.

EXERCISE 1 OF 58
Groove G -- Part G
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0 / 58 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART G, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART N
PART G
PART R
PART F
PART G
PART R
PART X
OUTRO 2
8 groovesAGRFJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This How screams a Why on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 78 BPM, 6:28 of playing, on crash, ride, 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
78 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
6:28
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 1-28, ride through bars 29-30, hi-hat through bars 31-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-38, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-26, 49-55 and 83-90, and 1 more place -- 16.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    49
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
This How screams a Why -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 32, 48, 56 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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, A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-73 -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Bars 27-109 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This How screams a Why?

78 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 This How screams a Why 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 6:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 14 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 This How screams a Why?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 19, 20, 32, 48, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED