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I Got Fired Today Im Headed To The Casino · Peelingflesh

EXERCISE 9 OF 35
Join Chorus to Part F (bars 8-10)
27 / 71 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
PART L
BREAK
PART S
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDLWFS5+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Got Fired Today Im Headed To The Casino on drums

71 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 1:47 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
71
LENGTH
1:47
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-9, snare through bars 10-33, silence through bars 34-60 and snare through bars 61-71.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 5 more places -- 12.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    14
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----------------x-----------|
I Got Fired Today Im Headed To The Casino -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 21, 47 and 71.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part F and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is I Got Fired Today Im Headed To The Casino?

160 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is I Got Fired Today Im Headed To The Casino hard to play on drums?

63 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 43 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

71 bars, about 1:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 I Got Fired Today Im Headed To The Casino?

4 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 13, 21, 47 and 71.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 71 BARS ANALYSED