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Why Go · Pearl Jam

EXERCISE 1 OF 48
Groove A -- Part A
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PART C
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEZAPC+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Why Go on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at 116 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
67/100

hi-hat through bars 1-35, silence through bars 36-38, hi-hat through bars 39-54, ride through bars 55-61, hi-hat through bars 62-70 and ride through bars 71-92, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 6 more places -- 14.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-o-x-x-x-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x--x-x--x-|
Why Go -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 22, 26, 34 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-22 -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-36 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part P -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 56-71 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Why Go?

116 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 Why Go hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 12 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 Why Go?

10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 2, 6, 10, 22, 26, 34 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED