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Guts · Budgie

EXERCISE 20 OF 32
Run C3 · Chorus 3 (bars 48-72)
86 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 25 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCFDKS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Guts on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 93 BPM, 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
93 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
41/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-37, snare through bars 38-47, hi-hat through bars 48-75, snare through bars 76-85 and hi-hat through bars 86-101.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-17, 22-33 and 48-55, and 3 more places -- 54.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Guts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 21, 47, 56, 57, 59 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- C, F -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 34-60 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 3 and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 73-101 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Guts?

93 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 Guts hard to play on drums?

41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Guts?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 5, 21, 47, 56, 57, 59 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED