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It's Tricky · The Bloodhound Gang

EXERCISE 4 OF 18
Groove A -- Part A
67 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART D
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It's Tricky on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at 147 BPM, about 2:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
147 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:25
DIFFICULTY
61/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-21, hi-hat through bars 22-28, snare through bars 29-37, hi-hat through bars 38-46 and snare through bars 47-73, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14-20, 30-37 and 50-57, and 2 more places -- 46.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
It's Tricky -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 5, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-41 -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is It's Tricky?

147 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 It's Tricky hard to play on drums?

61 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in It's Tricky?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 4, 5, 46, 47, 48, 49 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED