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why · Lynith
EXERCISE 8 OF 11
Groove F
48 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 11 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play why on drums

66 bars, 3:31, at 75 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
3:31
DIFFICULTY
43/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-26, silence through bars 27-37, hi-hat through bars 38-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-66.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-6, 10-16 and 18, and 5 more places -- 74.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    43
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
why -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 19 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is why?

75 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is why 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 3:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 1.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED