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Where Am I? · Title Fight

EXERCISE 17 OF 55
Fill at bar 28
47 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART AB
OUTRO
11 groovesGABAHJS+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 12
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where Am I? on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 2:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:56
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-20, toms through bars 21-28 and snare through bars 29-36, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13, 15-17 and 19-20, and 10 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|
SD |----x--x------x-|----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x-x---|--x---x-x-x---x-|
Where Am I? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 22, 26, 28, 40, 41 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- G, J -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-13 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 35-42 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 40-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Where Am I??

134 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 Where Am I? hard to play on drums?

54 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Where Am I??

8 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 22, 26, 28, 40, 41 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED