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This Is How It Goes · Billy Talent

EXERCISE 2 OF 35
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
30 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEGLOB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is How It Goes on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at a walking 108 BPM, 3:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
108 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
3:27
DIFFICULTY
73/100

hi-hat through bars 3-52, snare through bars 53-61, silence through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-93.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-16, 26-32 and 46-52, and 4 more places -- 33.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|----X-----------|
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o---o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----X----X--X--X|-X--X-------X---|
BD |Xx-x----X-xx--x-|X-xx--x-Xx-x----|
This Is How It Goes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 44, 60, 64, 68 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-20 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 59-80 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is This Is How It Goes?

108 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 Is How It Goes hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 3:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Is How It Goes?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 24, 44, 60, 64, 68 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED