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It Takes No Guts · Superjoint Ritual

EXERCISE 5 OF 44
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
30 / 106 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART C
PART H
PART H
PART H
PART O
PART H
CHORUS 5
OUTRO 2
6 groovesFHOYC+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play It Takes No Guts on drums

106 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 2:14 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
106
LENGTH
2:14
DIFFICULTY
64/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, silence through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-12, ride through bars 13-16 and hi-hat through bars 17-20, and 20 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 17-19 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
It Takes No Guts -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-13 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 9-20 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 24-62 -- 8 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and the Chorus 5 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 5 and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is It Takes No Guts?

190 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 It Takes No Guts hard to play on drums?

64 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

106 bars, about 2:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 It Takes No Guts?

8 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 8, 12, 14, 16, 20, 22 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 106 BARS ANALYSED