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This Is Who We Are · As I Lay Dying

EXERCISE 23 OF 55
Groove J -- Part J
95 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J
COUNT-IN
PART F
PART J
PART K
CHORUS
PART F
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
12 groovesOS14FS1K+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is Who We Are on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:01 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:01
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-42, ride through bars 43-46, hi-hat through bars 47-63 and snare through bars 64-79, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 64-66, 68-70 and 72-74, and 7 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    64
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x---|
This Is Who We Are -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- O -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-42 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part J and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Is Who We Are?

150 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 Who We Are hard to play on drums?

49 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Is Who We Are?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 34, 38, 42 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED