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Push It · Static-X

EXERCISE 9 OF 23
Groove F
78 / 97 BARS COVERED
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PART B
VERSE
CHORUS
VERSE 2
CHORUS 2
VERSE 3
CHORUS 3
VERSE 4
OUTRO
3 groovesGJBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Push It on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
74/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-29, snare through bars 30-33, hi-hat through bars 34-45, snare through bars 46-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-57, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-16, 18-24 and 34-40, and 3 more places -- 32% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Push It -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, 61 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 1-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 7-51 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Push It?

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 Push It hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Push It?

4 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 17, 25, 33, 41, 49, 61 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED