I Hate The Smell Of Sex · Imprinted on Angels

142 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 150 BPM, 3:44 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

150 BPM and upShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 8% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51 -- 7.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 150 BPM
I HATE THE SMELL OF SEX · BARS 41-42
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15 and 39 more.

LOOP · 150 BPM
BARS 7-11 · LANDS ON BAR 12 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20
LOOP · 150 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

147 bars across 11 sections: 59 keep time, 45 are fills, 1 is a stop and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 53-60.

PART E
PART P
CHORUS
PART BA
PART BV
OUTRO 2
11 groovesZS11PBAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is I Hate The Smell Of Sex?

150 BPM, in 3/4, 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 I Hate The Smell Of Sex hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

142 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 49 exercises over 19 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 I Hate The Smell Of Sex?

15 fills to learn, played 45 times: bars 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 15 and 39 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 142 BARS ANALYSED
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