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All Messed Up · Sum 41

EXERCISE 9 OF 53
Run C1 · Part C (bars 5-20)
61 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART P
PART U
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFCPAU+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Messed Up on drums

128 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 2:44 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
2:44
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-8, toms through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, toms through bars 18-19 and hi-hat through bars 20-31, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13 and 15, and 18 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    20
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |----o---o-o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
All Messed Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 18, 19, 25 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part A -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 36-57 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is All Messed Up?

187 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 All Messed Up hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 2:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 All Messed Up?

11 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 4, 9, 10, 18, 19, 25 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED