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Dirty · Sevendust

EXERCISE 1 OF 41
Groove F -- Part F
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COUNT-IN
PART D
PART H
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Z
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesKDFOZ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dirty on drums

123 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 131 BPM, 3:13 of playing on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
131 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
123
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
67/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, snare through bars 25-47, hi-hat through bars 48-53 and snare through bars 54-75, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 15, 17 and 19, and 16 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15
    1...........2...........3...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x-----------------------|
BD |x--x--x--x--------x--------x--------|
Dirty -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 37, 56, 64, 76, 77, 78 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 -- F, K -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through Part D -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 8-33 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part O -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 58-74 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dirty?

131 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dirty hard to play on drums?

67 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

123 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 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 Dirty?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 37, 56, 64, 76, 77, 78 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 123 BARS ANALYSED