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All Of The Courier Service Has Gone On Strike But I Just Want My Damn Package · Jay Mackintosh

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove J -- Chorus 2
0 / 135 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART O
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART AB
PART AJ
PART AP
PART AB
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJAPOAJAB+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play All Of The Courier Service Has Gone On Strike But I Just Want My Damn Package on drums

135 bars at 181 BPM -- fast, and 2:59 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
181 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
135
LENGTH
2:59
DIFFICULTY
77/100

toms through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-17, kick and crashes through bars 18-25, snare through bars 26-42, hi-hat through bars 43-57 and ride through bars 58-62, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-11, 13-15 and 45-47, and 3 more places -- 17.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    11
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |----------------------------x---|
HH |--------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |----x-x---------x---x-------x---|
All Of The Courier Service Has Gone On Strike But I Just Want My Damn Package -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 82, 86, 90, 94, 128 and 134.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- J -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AP, P (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-17 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Bars 10-19 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part O and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part W -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 54-62 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is All Of The Courier Service Has Gone On Strike But I Just Want My Damn Package?

181 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is All Of The Courier Service Has Gone On Strike But I Just Want My Damn Package hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

135 bars, about 2:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 18 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 All Of The Courier Service Has Gone On Strike But I Just Want My Damn Package?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 82, 86, 90, 94, 128 and 134.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 135 BARS ANALYSED