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You Are We · While She Sleeps

EXERCISE 11 OF 76
Fill at bar 30 and 169 (a small one)
76 / 171 BARS COVERED
0 / 76 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART N
PART S
PART V
PART AK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesBVS1AKN+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 19
LAND · 19
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Are We on drums

171 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
171
LENGTH
4:43
DIFFICULTY
50/100

silence through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-35, hi-hat through bars 36-40, snare through bars 41-49, toms through bars 50-58 and snare through bars 59-82, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 23, and 16 more places -- 23.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x--x--x--x--x---|
You Are We -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 32 and 33 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- V, S -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part H and Part N -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 37-53 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part S and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part V -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part V and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is You Are We?

145 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 You Are We hard to play on drums?

50 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

171 bars, about 4:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 You Are We?

19 fills to learn, played 39 times: bars 20, 22, 24, 28, 30, 32 and 33 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 171 BARS ANALYSED