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'Your Idol' · Saja Boys

'Your Idol' · Saja Boys
EXERCISE 18 OF 21
Groove Q
48 / 69 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART N
OUTRO
6 groovesBS1RDN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 'Your Idol' on drums

69 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
69
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-18, toms through bars 19-21, snare through bars 22-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-33, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 22-28 and 34-36, and 2 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    22
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x--x--|
'Your Idol' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 29 and 37.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-34 -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  5. Bars 56-62 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is 'Your Idol'?

90 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 Idol' hard to play on drums?

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

69 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in 'Your Idol'?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 13, 29 and 37.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 69 BARS ANALYSED