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u + me = <3 · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 8 OF 40
Groove E
105 / 142 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART J
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCDJOH+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play u + me = <3 on drums

142 bars of 4/4 at 142 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
142 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
58/100

hi-hat through bars 3-56, toms through bars 57-62, hi-hat through bars 63-110, snare through bars 111-116 and hi-hat through bars 117-142.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-10, 33 and 35-49, and 9 more places -- 55.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 34, 50, 70, 78, 86 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- C -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 33-62 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 61-87 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 94-122 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is u + me = <3?

142 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 u + me = <3 hard to play on drums?

58 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 u + me = <3?

8 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 2, 34, 50, 70, 78, 86 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED