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Why I Like The Robins · Hum

EXERCISE 5 OF 90
Groove B
53 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 90 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART D, PART Q
CHORUS
PART D
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART Q
PART AE
PART AJ
OUTRO 2
12 groovesCDQAUM+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 10
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Why I Like The Robins on drums

187 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 115 BPM, 4:53 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:53
DIFFICULTY
80/100

hi-hat through bars 1-34, ride through bars 35-50, hi-hat through bars 51-66, ride through bars 67-82, hi-hat through bars 83-98 and ride through bars 99-125, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-5, 8-9 and 12-13, and 11 more places -- 12.3% 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+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |-g-g--x--g-g|
BD |x--x-x------|
Why I Like The Robins -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 37 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 73 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 -- C, AU -- 3 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  8. Through Part D and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Why I Like The Robins?

115 BPM, in 3/4, 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 I Like The Robins 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 24 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Why I Like The Robins?

16 fills to learn, played 43 times: bars 1, 2, 30, 31, 32, 33 and 37 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED