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This World · Selah Sue

This World · Selah Sue
EXERCISE 22 OF 37
Join Part E to Chorus 3 (bars 99-101)
128 / 149 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART F
CHORUS 4
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBAFEJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This World on drums

149 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
149
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
32/100

hi-hat through bars 2-50, snare through bars 51-63, silence through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-105, snare through bars 106-120 and hi-hat through bars 121-135, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10-15 and 17-24, and 7 more places -- 55.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 49, 105, 119, 135 and 149.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 47-64 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 89-100 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 99-136 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 120-149 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is This World?

134 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 World hard to play on drums?

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

149 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 World?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 49, 105, 119, 135 and 149.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 149 BARS ANALYSED