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What About Me? · Snarky Puppy

EXERCISE 19 OF 59
Join Part AH to Part AN (bars 59-61)
71 / 203 BARS COVERED
0 / 59 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AH, PART AN
PART L
PART AH
PART AN
PART BO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesCZLANBOCU+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 15
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 4
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What About Me? on drums

203 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 6:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
203
LENGTH
6:13
DIFFICULTY
96/100

ride through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-49, silence through bars 50-55, hi-hat through bars 56-59, ride through bars 60-74 and hi-hat through bars 75-138, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12, 14 and 16, and 7 more places -- 5.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |----x---X---x-x-X---x---X---x---|
SD |--g-g---x-g-------g---x---g-g---|
BD |------x-----x---x-------------x-|
HF |x-------------------------------|
What About Me? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 62 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- CO -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part AH and Part AN -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Through Part AH and Part AN -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is What About Me??

130 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 What About Me? hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 82 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

203 bars, about 6:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 22 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in What About Me??

6 fills to learn, played 68 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 62 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 203 BARS ANALYSED