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We Can Get Together · Icehouse

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove F
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CHORUS
PART E
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEGBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Can Get Together on drums

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

53 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:33
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-60, toms through bars 61-68, hi-hat through bars 69-80 and toms through bars 81-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
We Can Get Together -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-119 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-63 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part G -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 110-128 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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