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Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales · Car Seat Headrest

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART B
PART S3
PART B
CHORUS
PART S6
PART A
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEBS9S1S3+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales on drums

180 bars of 4/4 at 117 BPM, about 6:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

45 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
117 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
6:09
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-34, silence through bars 35-49, hi-hat through bars 50-82, silence through bars 83-97 and hi-hat through bars 98-114, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 66-81, 98-112 and 132-138, and 6 more places -- 57.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    135
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 33, 113, 128, 129, 130, 131 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E, B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 32-82 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 97-132 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales?

117 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 Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales hard to play on drums?

45 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 6:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 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 Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales?

7 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 33, 113, 128, 129, 130, 131 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED