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GROOVING ASSHOLES · CIGUË

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 14 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play GROOVING ASSHOLES on drums

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

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

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
72/100

ride through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-24, ride through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-46, snare through bars 47-52 and silence through bars 53-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
RD |----x---------------------------|
SD |--------x-----x-----x---------x-|
T2 |----x---------------------------|
BD |x-x---------x---x-------x---x---|
GROOVING ASSHOLES -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, A -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 21-48 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-57 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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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