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we never dated · sombr

EXERCISE 14 OF 14
Play the whole song with the record
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CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART B
CHORUS 4
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesABCS8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play we never dated on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
3:14
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-64, snare through bars 65-68, hi-hat through bars 69-77 and silence through bars 78-80, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-20, 25-40 and 46-64, and 3 more places -- 81.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-------|
we never dated -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 13 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 21-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 41-78 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is we never dated?

104 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 never dated hard to play on drums?

42 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 3:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 13 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED