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Who Are You Now · Sleeping With Sirens

EXERCISE 10 OF 36
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
65 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 10 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART I
CHORUS
PART D
PART J
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART J
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO 2
10 groovesADIQM+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who Are You Now on drums

171 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 3:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
3:59
DIFFICULTY
60/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-48, snare through bars 49-65, silence through bars 66-68, snare through bars 69-75 and hi-hat through bars 76-108, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 17-23, 25-30 and 77-83, and 1 more place -- 17.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17               18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---xgggxggg|
SD |----x-----x-----|x-----x---------|
BD |x-x---x-x---x-x-|--x-x---x---x---|
Who Are You Now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 40, 56, 64, 84, 92 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- D -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, B -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 39-72 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 75-125 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 112-157 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Who Are You Now?

172 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 Who Are You Now hard to play on drums?

60 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 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 3:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Who Are You Now?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 40, 56, 64, 84, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED