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What have we done · Brutus

EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove G -- Part G
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0 / 34 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART G
PART B
PART I
PART B
PART G
PART O
PART P
OUTRO
7 groovesABGPO+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What have we done on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 3:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
132 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:05
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-17, hi-hat through bars 18-32, ride through bars 33-38, kick and crashes through bars 39-44 and ride through bars 45-50, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 31-32 and 60, and 3 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    32
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |--------x---x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
What have we done -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 48, 49, 50, 58 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- G, O -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 31-53 -- 7 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 65-76 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 71-92 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is What have we done?

132 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 What have we done hard to play on drums?

44 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 have we done?

5 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 48, 49, 50, 58 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED