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What I Would Give To Be Australian · Jonny Craig

EXERCISE 15 OF 21
Join Part A to Outro (bars 45-47)
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0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART C
PART A
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesBKCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What I Would Give To Be Australian on drums

199 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
199
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
57/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 75 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-o-x-x-o-x-x-|
BD |----x-----x-----|
What I Would Give To Be Australian -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 43 and 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part A -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 45-122 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is What I Would Give To Be Australian?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is What I Would Give To Be Australian hard to play on drums?

57 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 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

199 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 What I Would Give To Be Australian?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 32, 43 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 199 BARS ANALYSED