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Sexy Drug · Falling In Reverse

EXERCISE 3 OF 38
Fill at bar 1 (a small one)
59 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
CHORUS
PART F
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART F
PART Q
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFLQIFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sexy Drug on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at 135 BPM, about 3:11 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
135 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
3:11
DIFFICULTY
69/100

toms through bar 1, snare through bars 2-45, hi-hat through bars 46-53, snare through bars 54-65, ride through bars 66-72 and snare through bars 73-81, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 6 more places -- 28% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Sexy Drug -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 53, 81, 89 and 107.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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, B -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 12 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-52 -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-42 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through Part L and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 53-66 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 60-82 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sexy Drug?

135 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sexy Drug hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 3:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Sexy Drug?

5 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 53, 81, 89 and 107.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED