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American Errorist (I Hate Hate Haters) · NOFX

EXERCISE 4 OF 24
Groove D -- Part D
27 / 65 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play American Errorist (I Hate Hate Haters) on drums

65 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 1:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
1:44
DIFFICULTY
79/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-21, ride through bars 22-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, ride through bars 42-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-57, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 14 and 16, and 12 more places -- 32.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
American Errorist (I Hate Hate Haters) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 33, 37, 41 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-14 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-65 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is American Errorist (I Hate Hate Haters)?

150 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 American Errorist (I Hate Hate Haters) hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 64 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 1:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 8 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 American Errorist (I Hate Hate Haters)?

4 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 13, 17, 21, 33, 37, 41 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 65 BARS ANALYSED