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We Like To Party · STESY

EXERCISE 30 OF 61
Groove N -- Part N
71 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART S2
PART G
PART H
PART N
PART L
PART S
CHORUS 3
12 groovesDLZGX+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Like To Party on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at 136 BPM, about 3:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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
136 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, snare through bars 29-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 37-39 and 93-95, and 2 more places -- 15% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x-x---x-|
We Like To Party -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 11, 16, 30, 32, 34, 40 and 23 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 48 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 16-28 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-44 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-55 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Like To Party?

136 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 Like To Party 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 48 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in We Like To Party?

12 fills to learn, played 29 times: bars 11, 16, 30, 32, 34, 40 and 23 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED