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We Are · Ana Johnson

We Are · Ana Johnson
EXERCISE 1 OF 19
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCBS1S6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 3:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
3:45
DIFFICULTY
43/100

silence through bars 1-21, hi-hat through bars 22-46, silence through bars 47-48, hi-hat through bars 49-96, silence through bars 97-102 and toms through bars 103-104, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-36, 38-44 and 64, and 9 more places -- 66% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 89, 103, 104 and 128.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 30-67 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 89-129 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is We Are?

145 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 We Are hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 3:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 4 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 We Are?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 89, 103, 104 and 128.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED