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What It Cost & Like a Villain · Bad Omens

EXERCISE 5 OF 45
Groove C -- Part C
41 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART E, CHORUS
PART C
PART C
PART E
PART E
CHORUS
PART P
OUTRO
11 groovesJCEPS7+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What It Cost & Like a Villain on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 77 BPM, 5:12 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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
77 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
5:12
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 2-19, kick and crashes through bars 20-21, hi-hat through bars 22-30, silence through bars 31-34, hi-hat through bars 35-51 and snare through bars 52-54, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 8, and 15 more places -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xx-----xxx------|
What It Cost & Like a Villain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 46, 50, 64 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-30 -- 9 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part S7 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-73 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 45-78 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is What It Cost & Like a Villain?

77 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 It Cost & Like a Villain 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 5:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 What It Cost & Like a Villain?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 46, 50, 64 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED