Group Sex 1980 · Circle jerks

607 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 12:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
607
LENGTH
12:40
DIFFICULTY
73/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 28-31, 37-40 and 256-257, and 37 more places -- 20.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 190 BPM
GROUP SEX 1980 · BAR 28
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

48 fills to learn, played 130 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 13, 14, 32 and 124 more.

LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 1-2 · LANDS ON BAR 3 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BARS 12-14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33
LOOP · 190 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

44 more fills are written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

607 bars across 73 sections: 364 keep time, 132 are fills, 29 are stops and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 571-587.

49 groovesIAHEABT+44Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Group Sex 1980?

190 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 Group Sex 1980 hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 66 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

607 bars, about 12:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 236 exercises over 70 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Group Sex 1980?

48 fills to learn, played 130 times: bars 1, 2, 12, 13, 14, 32 and 124 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 607 BARS ANALYSED
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