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Why not? · Siam Shade

Why not? · Siam Shade
EXERCISE 27 OF 100
Fill at bar 21
86 / 158 BARS COVERED
0 / 100 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
PART F
PART K
PART P
CHORUS
PART Z
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesABFZBPP+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 26
LAND · 26
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 10
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Why not? on drums

158 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 4:54 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
158
LENGTH
4:54
DIFFICULTY
71/100

toms through bars 2-3, snare through bars 4-5, hi-hat through bars 6-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-37 and snare through bars 38-44, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45, 47-49 and 51, and 12 more places -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    47
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x----x--x-----|
Why not? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

26 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 9, 12, 13, 17 and 48 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 -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BP -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part K -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 4-18 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 10-30 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part V -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 12 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Why not??

128 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 not? hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

158 bars, about 4:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 73 exercises over 20 sittings, about 27 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 not??

26 fills to learn, played 54 times: bars 2, 3, 9, 12, 13, 17 and 48 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 158 BARS ANALYSED