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Cell Out · NOFX

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove A -- Outro
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0 / 12 PASSED · 54 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
1 grooveAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cell Out on drums

60 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
2:00
DIFFICULTY
67/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-15 and 17-23, and 3 more places -- 90% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Cell Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28 and 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Cell Out?

120 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 Cell Out hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 2:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 20 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Cell Out?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 28 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED