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Idiots Are Taking Over · NOFX

EXERCISE 2 OF 27
Groove G -- Part G
51 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 27 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, OUTRO
PART C
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEGICS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Idiots Are Taking Over on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:19 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
68/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-22, toms through bars 23-24, hi-hat through bars 25-30, ride through bars 31-38 and hi-hat through bars 39-50, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-22, 25-30 and 39-42, and 5 more places -- 46.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xx-x-x--xx--xx--|
Idiots Are Taking Over -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 38, 51, 52 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-34 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-73 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 70-101 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Idiots Are Taking Over?

140 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 Idiots Are Taking Over hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Idiots Are Taking Over?

4 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 8, 23, 24, 38, 51, 52 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED