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We Stand United | Completed · Eleine

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 155 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 77 BARS LIT
PART A
CHORUS
PART Q
PART U
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART S10
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO
8 groovesCQAS14U+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Stand United | Completed on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 4:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, toms through bars 41-44, hi-hat through bars 45-48, snare through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-56, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-23, and 17 more places -- 51% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
We Stand United | Completed -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 32, 36, 40 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part U -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 82-105 -- 8 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Stand United | Completed?

126 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 Stand United | Completed hard to play on drums?

51 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 11 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Stand United | Completed?

17 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 32, 36, 40 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED