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WILL U STILL U · Jeff Rosenstock

WILL U STILL U · Jeff Rosenstock
EXERCISE 1 OF 46
Groove AF -- Outro
0 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART B
PART F
PART G
PART M
PART R
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesVBAFGF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play WILL U STILL U on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 3:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
91/100

toms through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-20, toms through bars 21-34, hi-hat through bars 35-41, ride through bars 42-48 and hi-hat through bars 49-60, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 73-87 -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    73
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
SD |xggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
WILL U STILL U -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 38, 41, 42 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- AF, B -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part G -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is WILL U STILL U?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 WILL U STILL U hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 17 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 WILL U STILL U?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 33, 34, 38, 41, 42 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED