GROOVING ASSHOLES · CIGUË

72 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
72/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 14-15 and 25-27, and 2 more places -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 110 BPM
GROOVING ASSHOLES · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 28, 44, 60, 69, 70 and 2 more.

LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 110 BPM
BAR 60 · LANDS ON BAR 61
LOOP · 110 BPM
BARS 69-72 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 10 sections: 50 keep time, 8 are fills and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 15-23.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART B
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFBQAD+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is GROOVING ASSHOLES?

110 BPM, in 4/4, 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 GROOVING ASSHOLES hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 GROOVING ASSHOLES?

4 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 12, 28, 44, 60, 69, 70 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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