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Who's Having Fun? · Drain

EXERCISE 28 OF 40
Join Chorus to Part T (bars 67-69)
80 / 103 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART T
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART T
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMDTS1B+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Who's Having Fun? on drums

103 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:07 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
103
LENGTH
4:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-9, snare through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, snare through bars 17-22 and hi-hat through bars 23-32, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 36-50, 52 and 54, and 13 more places -- 31.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    52
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Who's Having Fun? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- M, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part T and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Who's Having Fun??

100 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's Having Fun? hard to play on drums?

48 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

103 bars, about 4:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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's Having Fun??

10 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 10, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 103 BARS ANALYSED