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You Might Think · The Cars

You Might Think · The Cars
EXERCISE 11 OF 19
Join Chorus to Outro (bars 51-53)
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0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesAJFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play You Might Think on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
48/100

hi-hat through bars 1-51, kick and crashes through bars 52-65, hi-hat through bars 66-99 and kick and crashes through bars 100-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-10, 12-19 and 24-30, and 8 more places -- 65% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 23, 31, 32, 44, 51 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 49-100 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is You Might Think?

134 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 Might Think hard to play on drums?

48 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 31 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Might Think?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 11, 23, 31, 32, 44, 51 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED