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What If · Creed

EXERCISE 16 OF 41
Fill at bar 21 (a small one)
58 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART E
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesKCEGQ+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What If on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at a walking 102 BPM, 3:15 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
102 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
3:15
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-21, hi-hat through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-55 and snare through bars 56-63, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 38-44, 46-48 and 50-54 -- 19% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    38               39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------------x--x|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x------x-xx-----|xx-----x-xx----x|
What If -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 25, 29 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-39 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-72 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is What If?

102 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 If hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 3:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 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, 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 If?

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 5, 9, 13, 21, 25, 29 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED