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We Got the Moves · Electric Callboy

EXERCISE 8 OF 42
Fill at bar 16 and 44 (a small one)
51 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART J
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART S13
OUTRO
11 groovesFCTS1J+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Got the Moves on drums

128 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, kick and crashes through bars 29-32, hi-hat through bars 33-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-27, 49-55 and 57-63, and 2 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    21
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
We Got the Moves -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 56, 64, 66 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 16-29 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 31-67 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-76 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part S11 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-99 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 80-128 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Got the Moves?

150 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 Got the Moves hard to play on drums?

56 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 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Got the Moves?

9 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 40, 44, 56, 64, 66 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED