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Would You Still Be There · Of Mice & Men

EXERCISE 26 OF 32
Run R1 · Part R (bars 57-62)
60 / 76 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART O
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesHEBOR+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Would You Still Be There on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:10 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-8, hi-hat through bars 9-20, snare through bars 21-30, hi-hat through bars 31-44 and snare through bars 45-56, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-26, 41-48 and 65-67, and 1 more place -- 30.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x---x-----x-x---x---x---------|
Would You Still Be There -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 30, 39, 60 and 64.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-27 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part E -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-52 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 57-72 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Would You Still Be There?

96 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 Would You Still Be There hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Would You Still Be There?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 17, 18, 30, 39, 60 and 64.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED