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We Could Be The Same · maNga

EXERCISE 21 OF 29
Join Part J to Part D (bars 39-41)
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PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesGJDABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Could Be The Same on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-18, toms through bars 19-32, hi-hat through bars 33-47, toms through bars 48-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-74, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-23, 25-31 and 49-55, and 1 more place -- 27.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
SD |------x-----x---|
T2 |----xx----xx--xx|
FT |x-x-----x-------|
BD |x-x-----x-------|
We Could Be The Same -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 3-36 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-64 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is We Could Be The Same?

133 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 Could Be The Same hard to play on drums?

54 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 We Could Be The Same?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 32, 48, 56 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED