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When you were beggars · a picture of her

EXERCISE 27 OF 98
Groove R
66 / 193 BARS COVERED
0 / 98 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, PART AE
PART A
PART G
PART K
PART AE
PART AF
PART AO
CHORUS
PART BM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesATBMGKAO+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 24
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 7
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play When you were beggars on drums

193 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:23
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-19, ride through bars 20-24, hi-hat through bars 25-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-107 and snare through bars 108-111, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 96-105 and 107 -- 5.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    100
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------|
When you were beggars -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 42, 50, 51 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 80 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 -- AO, A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-18 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 23-53 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is When you were beggars?

180 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 When you were beggars hard to play on drums?

59 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 12 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 80 exercises over 25 sittings, about 24 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 When you were beggars?

17 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 20, 21, 29, 42, 50, 51 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED