We Can Get Together · Icehouse

128 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 3:33 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 26% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 16, 20 and 24, and 27 more places -- 25.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 144 BPM
WE CAN GET TOGETHER · BAR 26
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 68, 84, 92, 96, 112 and 3 more.

LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 68 · LANDS ON BAR 69
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 92 · LANDS ON BAR 93
LOOP · 144 BPM
BAR 96 · LANDS ON BAR 97

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

128 bars across 8 sections: 105 keep time, 9 are fills and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 33-52.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Can Get Together?

144 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 Can Get Together hard to play on drums?

53 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:33 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, 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 Can Get Together?

8 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 12, 68, 84, 92, 96, 112 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED
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