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Itch · Nothing But Thieves

EXERCISE 10 OF 44
Groove H
65 / 118 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesDGUBM+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Itch on drums

118 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
118
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
53/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-20, silence through bars 21-22, hi-hat through bars 23-36, ride through bars 37-40 and toms through bars 41-56, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 29 and 35, and 12 more places -- 27.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    27
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
HH |----o---o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x---|
Itch -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 34, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G, D -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-41 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 41-76 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Itch?

150 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 Itch hard to play on drums?

53 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

118 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Itch?

6 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 26, 34, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 118 BARS ANALYSED