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Us · First Day Back

EXERCISE 20 OF 34
Join Part K to Part E (bars 47-49)
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0 / 34 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART E
CHORUS
PART E
PART K
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCKEQS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Us on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-4, ride through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-36, ride through bars 37-48, hi-hat through bars 49-53 and ride through bars 54-86.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5, 37 and 41, and 6 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x----x--x---|
BD |x--x--xx--xx---x|
Us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E, K -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-29 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-55 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 45-65 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Us?

92 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 Us hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Us?

7 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED