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EXERCISE 11 OF 105
Groove H (a two-bar phrase)
74 / 226 BARS COVERED
0 / 105 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART J, PART G
PART B
PART C
PART J
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART AQ
PART AW
PART BL
17 groovesAOAWCBBL+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 21
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play True Friendship on drums

226 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 7:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
226
LENGTH
7:13
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-43, snare through bars 44-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-64, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-16 and 53-63 -- 11.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e
HH |x-x-x-x--x-x-x-x--|
SD |-g-g-g-g-xg-g-g-gg|
BD |x-------x---------|
True Friendship -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 44 and 74 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 82 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 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 33-93 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part C and Part J -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is True Friendship?

130 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 True Friendship hard to play on drums?

63 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

226 bars, about 7:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 82 exercises over 27 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in True Friendship?

22 fills to learn, played 80 times: bars 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 44 and 74 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 226 BARS ANALYSED