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Where may I be · Elijah/Javeah

Where may I be · Elijah/Javeah
EXERCISE 2 OF 28
Groove H -- Part H
8 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART K
PART A
PART E
PART H
PART K
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesOHKAE+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Where may I be on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:29
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-8, ride through bars 9-32, snare through bars 33-50, silence through bars 51-56 and snare through bars 57-76.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15-16, 18-19 and 21-22, and 1 more place -- 10.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |x-----------x-------------------|
BD |x-------------------x-----------|
Where may I be -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 31, 32, 55 and 56.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 20-35 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Where may I be?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 may I be hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 may I be?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 14, 31, 32, 55 and 56.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED