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What We Have Done · Fixation

What We Have Done · Fixation
EXERCISE 19 OF 44
Groove I
102 / 144 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 11 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S9
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFBUAK+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play What We Have Done on drums

144 bars of 4/4 at 122 BPM, about 4:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
122 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
144
LENGTH
4:40
DIFFICULTY
47/100

toms through bars 1-26, snare through bars 27-42, toms through bars 43-55, snare through bars 56-94, toms through bars 95-96 and silence through bars 97-103, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 31-33, and 24 more places -- 27.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x----x--x-|
What We Have Done -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 25, 26, 34 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- F, B -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 9-27 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-65 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 52-64 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-107 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 104-131 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is What We Have Done?

122 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 We Have Done hard to play on drums?

47 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

144 bars, about 4:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 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 We Have Done?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 25, 26, 34 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 144 BARS ANALYSED