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EXERCISE 4 OF 47
4-bar fill at bar 45
9 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
COUNT-IN
PART A
PART S3
PART E
PART H
PART L
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNAEHS3+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 到底發生過什麼事 What Happened on drums

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 84 BPM, 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
84 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-20, toms through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-46 and snare through bars 47-62, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41, 61 and 63-65, and 2 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x--------x-----x--------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x-----------------|
到底發生過什麼事 What Happened -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 21, 22, 30, 34, 42, 45 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 2 and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-41 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 到底發生過什麼事 What Happened?

84 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 到底發生過什麼事 What Happened hard to play on drums?

61 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 到底發生過什麼事 What Happened?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 21, 22, 30, 34, 42, 45 and 16 more.

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