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Dude, You Have No Idea How Bad I Want to Workout Right Now · Harrison Bergeron

EXERCISE 16 OF 76
Groove G -- Part G (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART P
CHORUS 4
PART AB
PART AC
PART AK
OUTRO
15 groovesFAKPACAB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 4
JOIN · 13
LINK · 4
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dude, You Have No Idea How Bad I Want to Workout Right Now on drums

168 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:22 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, silence through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-38, snare through bars 39-46 and ride through bars 47-62, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 13.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    26
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x---x-|
Dude, You Have No Idea How Bad I Want to Workout Right Now -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 38, 48, 50, 54, 58, 60 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 62 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, AK -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-149 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 16-33 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part L -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part L and Part P -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dude, You Have No Idea How Bad I Want to Workout Right Now?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Dude, You Have No Idea How Bad I Want to Workout Right Now hard to play on drums?

54 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 62 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Dude, You Have No Idea How Bad I Want to Workout Right Now?

13 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 38, 48, 50, 54, 58, 60 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED