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You Know Who's Seatbelt · The Bled

EXERCISE 1 OF 51
Groove T -- Part T
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0 / 51 PASSED · 30 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
PART O
PART T
PART W
PART D
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesAACODT+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Know Who's Seatbelt on drums

126 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 2:52 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
2:52
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, snare through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-16 and toms through bars 17-18, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-50, 53-58 and 102-104, and 5 more places -- 24.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    102
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---------x---|
You Know Who's Seatbelt -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 17, 18, 21 and 22 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 -- T, C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part O and Part T -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part T and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-91 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is You Know Who's Seatbelt?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is You Know Who's Seatbelt hard to play on drums?

51 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 2:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 39 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Know Who's Seatbelt?

11 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 17, 18, 21 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED