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S & M Airlines · NOFX

EXERCISE 1 OF 50
Groove F -- Chorus
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BREAK
CHORUS
PART M
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
10 groovesFS3SS1B+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play S & M Airlines on drums

193 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:33 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
193
LENGTH
4:33
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-14, silence through bars 15-32, hi-hat through bars 33-74, snare through bars 75-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-78, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 32 more places -- 58% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 37-83 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 119-131 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is S & M Airlines?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is S & M Airlines hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

193 bars, about 4:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 S & M Airlines?

16 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 193 BARS ANALYSED