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EXERCISE 25 OF 40
6-bar fill at bar 44
48 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART B
PART G
PART H
PART I
PART K
CHORUS
PART V
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesLBIGK+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dicks out for Harambe on drums

78 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:56 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
1:56
DIFFICULTY
80/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-11, toms through bars 12-13, snare through bars 14-25, hi-hat through bars 26-29 and snare through bars 30-45, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-9 -- 10.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
Dicks out for Harambe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 29 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-30 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-41 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 53-69 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dicks out for Harambe?

160 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 Dicks out for Harambe hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 1:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Dicks out for Harambe?

5 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 1, 10, 11, 12, 13, 29 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED