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Fight For Your Right To Party · Beastie Boys

EXERCISE 4 OF 14
Groove E (a two-bar phrase)
75 / 113 BARS COVERED
0 / 14 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fight For Your Right To Party on drums

113 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:22 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:22
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-5, ride through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15, ride through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-19 and ride through bars 20-21, and 21 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 6-13, 16-17 and 20-21, and 14 more places -- 45.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    6                7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-------x-------|
Fight For Your Right To Party -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 101.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 5-89 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fight For Your Right To Party?

134 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 Fight For Your Right To Party hard to play on drums?

47 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Fight For Your Right To Party?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 61 and 101.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED