Loud and Gross · Sex and Medication

146 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 4:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

120 to 149 BPMFour drums or fewer
TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
146
LENGTH
4:20
DIFFICULTY
65/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 53% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-43 and 61-95 -- 53.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 135 BPM
LOUD AND GROSS · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 145 and 146.

LOOP · 135 BPM
BARS 145-146 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

146 bars across 10 sections: 130 keep time and 2 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-43.

CHORUS
PART D
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADCFFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Loud and Gross?

135 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 Loud and Gross hard to play on drums?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

146 bars, about 4:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Loud and Gross?

1 fill to learn, played 2 times: bars 145 and 146.

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