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Your face · Wisp

EXERCISE 21 OF 33
Run B1 · Part B (bars 32-48)
97 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 17 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART B
PART O
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBOS1S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your face on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 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
121
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-35, snare through bars 36-46, hi-hat through bars 47-48 and snare through bars 49-50, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 32, and 9 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---g---x---g---|
SD |--------x-----x-|
BD |x---------------|
HF |----g-------g---|
Your face -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 35, 43, 51 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-91 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Your face?

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 Your face hard to play on drums?

54 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 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 Your face?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 35, 43, 51 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED