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EXERCISE 10 OF 53
Groove E
53 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART AB
OUTRO
8 groovesDRLABS2+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Already Know on drums

93 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:39 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:39
DIFFICULTY
59/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-7, snare through bars 8-11, silence through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-52 and snare through bars 53-57, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 14 more places -- 32.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----------x-----------------------------------|
You Already Know -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 9, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 39 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- J (a two-bar phrase) -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 10-29 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 22-45 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 3 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is You Already Know?

140 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 You Already Know hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 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 You Already Know?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 3, 9, 18, 19, 24, 25 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED