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Who Do You Think You Are · Sass Jordan

EXERCISE 14 OF 55
Groove H
69 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 55 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBIFZR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who Do You Think You Are on drums

106 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 3:48 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
3:48
DIFFICULTY
43/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6 and 26, and 8 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Who Do You Think You Are -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 27, 35 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 5-10 -- 5 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part I -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 25-48 -- 9 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-64 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 60-70 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-86 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Who Do You Think You Are?

111 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 Who Do You Think You Are hard to play on drums?

43 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 3:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Who Do You Think You Are?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 9, 17, 25, 27, 35 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED