Sex, Drugs, Etc. · Beach Weather

57 bars, 3:10, at 72 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
72 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
57
LENGTH
3:10
DIFFICULTY
58/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 23% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 10, and 10 more places -- 23.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 72 BPM
SEX, DRUGS, ETC. · BAR 2
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 25, 29, 38, 39, 40 and 3 more.

LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26
LOOP · 72 BPM
BARS 38-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 72 BPM
BAR 45 · LANDS ON BAR 46

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

THE SHAPE

How the song is built

57 bars across 6 sections: 40 keep time, 10 are fills and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 14-24.

PART D
CHORUS
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEBDCO+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sex, Drugs, Etc.?

72 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Sex, Drugs, Etc. hard to play on drums?

58 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

57 bars, about 3:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 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 Sex, Drugs, Etc.?

5 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 25, 29, 38, 39, 40 and 3 more.

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