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I Wish I Was Queer So i Could Get Chicks. · The Bloodhound Gang

EXERCISE 33 OF 39
Run P1 · Outro (bars 107-121)
135 / 146 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
PART I
PART I
CHORUS 4
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDIGPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Wish I Was Queer So i Could Get Chicks. on drums

146 bars at 159 BPM -- fast, and 3:35 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
159 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-37, snare through bars 38-39, hi-hat through bars 40-105, ride through bars 106-119 and snare through bars 120-146.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-10, 12-13 and 16, and 19 more places -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
I Wish I Was Queer So i Could Get Chicks. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 11, 14, 15, 19, 33 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- D -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I, G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 22-80 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 72-107 -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Bars 103-122 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is I Wish I Was Queer So i Could Get Chicks.?

159 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 I Wish I Was Queer So i Could Get Chicks. hard to play on drums?

57 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Wish I Was Queer So i Could Get Chicks.?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 5, 11, 14, 15, 19, 33 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 146 BARS ANALYSED