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We Are · Dares Devil

EXERCISE 2 OF 65
Groove C -- Part C
22 / 182 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
PART C
PART G
CHORUS
PART S
PART R
PART Y
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART AG
PART C
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
17 groovesJGPCS+12Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are on drums

182 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
182
LENGTH
4:16
DIFFICULTY
75/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-15, snare through bars 16-53, kick and crashes through bars 54-57, snare through bars 58-65 and hi-hat through bars 66-80, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26, 28 and 30, and 16 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
We Are -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 41, 57, 73, 90, 134 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 58 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through Part G and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Bars 26-58 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Are?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is We Are hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

182 bars, about 4:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 58 exercises over 21 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 7, 41, 57, 73, 90, 134 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 182 BARS ANALYSED