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Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up · Them Crooked Vultures

EXERCISE 5 OF 79
Groove B -- Part B
108 / 250 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, OUTRO
PART B
PART E
PART B
PART E
PART U
PART AA
PART AL
PART AO
PART AO
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
15 groovesASAOALEB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 13
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up on drums

250 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 9:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
250
LENGTH
9:21
DIFFICULTY
87/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-11, toms through bars 12-27, ride through bars 28-43, hi-hat through bars 44-47 and toms through bars 48-63, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 157-163, 189-199 and 201-203, and 5 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    157
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
RD |----------x----------x---------x----------x----------x---------x|
SD |----------x-------------------------------x---------------------|
FT |--------------------------x-------------------------------x-----|
BD |---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------x|
Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 14, 18, 19, 23, 26 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- AS -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AL -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AO -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 13 minutes.
  7. Through Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up?

107 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 73 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

250 bars, about 9:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 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 Warsaw or the First Breath You Take After You Give Up?

10 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 11, 14, 18, 19, 23, 26 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 250 BARS ANALYSED