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Random bullshit · That Guy 5

Random bullshit · That Guy 5
EXERCISE 8 OF 79
Fill at bar 82
64 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART X
PART E
CHORUS
PART Z
CHORUS 2
PART X
PART AH
PART X
PART AK
BREAK
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
8 groovesOXES9AH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Random bullshit on drums

168 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 4:28 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 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
168
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
54/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, ride through bars 10-12, hi-hat through bars 13-16, ride through bars 17-18 and hi-hat through bars 19-39, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 27 and 29-30, and 10 more places -- 16.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-xx--x---xx--x-|
Random bullshit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 50 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- O -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- X, AH -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-83 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part Z -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Random bullshit?

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 Random bullshit hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 15 sittings, about 28 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 Random bullshit?

22 fills to learn, played 56 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 50 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED