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Beer! · Psychostick

Beer! · Psychostick
EXERCISE 5 OF 18
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
37 / 63 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDNCS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beer! on drums

63 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:01 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
63
LENGTH
2:01
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-40, snare through bars 41-49, hi-hat through bars 50-51, snare through bars 52-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-63.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-48 and 52-62 -- 30.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    42
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Beer! -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41 and 63.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- N, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 26-63 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Beer!?

125 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 Beer! 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

63 bars, about 2:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 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 Beer!?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 38, 39, 40, 41 and 63.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 63 BARS ANALYSED