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Top Of The World · All-American Rejects

EXERCISE 14 OF 40
Join Part F to Verse (bars 26-28)
91 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, VERSE
PART C
CHORUS
PART F
VERSE
PART J
PART L
VERSE 2
CHORUS 4
BREAK
VERSE 3
OUTRO
8 groovesEHLCJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Top Of The World on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 3:17 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
3:17
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-56, snare through bars 57-62 and toms through bars 63-64, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 37-40 and 57-62, and 5 more places -- 28.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    57
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Top Of The World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 116.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-44 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 45-57 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-66 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Verse 2 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Top Of The World?

152 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 Top Of The World hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 3:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Top Of The World?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 56, 80, 84, 88, 92 and 116.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED