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Prison Sex · Tool

EXERCISE 26 OF 63
Groove N
59 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART D
PART G
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART AH
OUTRO 2
11 groovesJDAHFAT+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Prison Sex on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 4:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:09
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-32, ride through bars 33-40, hi-hat through bars 41-56, ride through bars 57-72 and hi-hat through bars 73-76, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-12, 14-16 and 22-24, and 2 more places -- 16.7% 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 |x-x-x-o-xxx-x-xx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x--x-x|
Prison Sex -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 32, 39, 40 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part D -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Prison Sex?

112 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 Prison Sex hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 18 sittings, about 24 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 Prison Sex?

11 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 8, 20, 32, 39, 40 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED