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We Got Used To Us · Riverside

We Got Used To Us · Riverside
EXERCISE 8 OF 22
Fill at bar 20
28 / 62 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART F
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART F
PART S4
PART F
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesES1FS4S7+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Got Used To Us on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-11, ride through bars 12-15, hi-hat through bars 16-21, silence through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-46 and silence through bars 47-53, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--xx-----|
We Got Used To Us -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 18-42 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED