← SONGS

Thoughts and Prayers · Inclination

Thoughts and Prayers · Inclination
EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 87 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART E
PART H
PART K
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S10
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesBEABHK+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Thoughts and Prayers on drums

87 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:11 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
87
LENGTH
2:11
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-8, kick and crashes through bars 9-10, snare through bars 11-18, hi-hat through bars 19-26 and toms through bars 27-30, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-8 and 41-42, and 3 more places -- 16% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Thoughts and Prayers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 22, 30, 35 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part K and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Thoughts and Prayers?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Thoughts and Prayers hard to play on drums?

53 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?

87 bars, about 2:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Thoughts and Prayers?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 14, 18, 22, 30, 35 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 87 BARS ANALYSED