We Got Used To Us · Riverside

62 bars, 3:31, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

ProgressiveRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 37% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 30 and 34, and 4 more places -- 36.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
WE GOT USED TO US · BAR 17
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 20, 29, 37, 45, 53 and 2 more.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

62 bars across 8 sections: 23 keep time, 8 are fills, 3 are stops and 24 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 38-44.

COUNT-IN
PART C
PART S4
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesES1FS4S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is We Got Used To Us?

70 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is We Got Used To Us hard to play on drums?

50 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 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 Got Used To Us?

5 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 16, 20, 29, 37, 45, 53 and 2 more.

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