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Your Screen Door · Title Fight

EXERCISE 8 OF 30
4-bar fill at bar 9
42 / 93 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
PART N
BREAK
OUTRO
4 groovesGNS5XFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Screen Door on drums

93 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:15 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
93
LENGTH
2:15
DIFFICULTY
53/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-27, toms through bars 28-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-43, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-19 and 21-23, and 2 more places -- 22.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- G -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, X -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-72 -- 9 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Screen Door?

155 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 Your Screen Door hard to play on drums?

53 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

93 bars, about 2:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Your Screen Door?

7 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 93 BARS ANALYSED