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Sex Type Thing · Stone Temple Pilots

EXERCISE 16 OF 19
2-bar fill at bar 120
119 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART C
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sex Type Thing on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:35 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
3:35
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, toms through bars 65-66, hi-hat through bars 67-68, toms through bars 69-70, hi-hat through bars 71-96 and toms through bars 97-98, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 9-12 and 14-23, and 12 more places -- 56.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Sex Type Thing -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 65, 66, 69 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- A -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 40-105 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Sex Type Thing?

135 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 Sex Type Thing hard to play on drums?

59 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 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

121 bars, about 3:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Type Thing?

4 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 8, 24, 48, 65, 66, 69 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED