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throw a book at my head if im wrong · m e t a n o i a.

EXERCISE 14 OF 33
Groove K -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
49 / 110 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
PART F
PART S3
CHORUS
PART N
PART R
OUTRO
BREAK
8 groovesKES8FR+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play throw a book at my head if im wrong on drums

98 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 80 BPM, 4:02 of playing on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
52/100

snare through bars 1-33, silence through bars 34-42, ride through bars 43-70, snare through bars 71-91 and silence through bars 92-98.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-22 and 31 -- 19.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |---x--x--xx-|
BD |x-x--x--x--x|
throw a book at my head if im wrong -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase), F -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-33 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 42-74 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 72-91 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is throw a book at my head if im wrong?

80 BPM, in 3/4, 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 throw a book at my head if im wrong hard to play on drums?

52 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 throw a book at my head if im wrong?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED