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I Hate The Smell Of Sex · Imprinted on Angels

I Hate The Smell Of Sex · Imprinted on Angels
EXERCISE 8 OF 65
5-bar fill at bar 90
23 / 147 BARS COVERED
0 / 65 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART BA
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Hate The Smell Of Sex on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
142
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-11, hi-hat through bars 12-19, ride through bars 20-35, snare through bars 36-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-60, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    41                               42
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------g-------x-------|g-------x-------g-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-------|------------x-------------------|
BD |x-------x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x---------|x---x-----------x---x---x-x-x-x-|
I Hate The Smell Of Sex -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 49 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 -- Z -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BA -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part BA -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  7. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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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