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Sell Out · Reel Big Fish

EXERCISE 6 OF 41
Groove B -- Part B (a two-bar phrase)
113 / 191 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART O
CHORUS 4
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFOIMS+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sell Out on drums

191 bars at 212 BPM -- fast, and 3:36 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
212 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
191
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-9, hi-hat through bars 10-53, snare through bars 54-56, hi-hat through bars 57-104 and snare through bars 105-107, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 10-24, 34-37 and 44-45, and 5 more places -- 39.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----x-----------|----------------|
HH |--------o---o---|o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|--x-----x-x-----|
Sell Out -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 33, 47, 55, 56, 88 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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, M -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part I -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part O -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part S -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sell Out?

212 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 Sell Out hard to play on drums?

61 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

191 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sell Out?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 25, 33, 47, 55, 56, 88 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 191 BARS ANALYSED