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Shame On A Nigga · System of a Down and Wu-Tang Clan

Shame On A Nigga · System of a Down and Wu-Tang Clan
EXERCISE 10 OF 40
Groove B -- Part B
51 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
PART C
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART N
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJCOKN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Shame On A Nigga on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
60/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-28, snare through bars 29-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44 and snare through bars 45-52, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 29-36, 45-51 and 69-76 -- 29.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |X-x-X-x-X-x-X-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Shame On A Nigga -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 27, 28, 40 and 2 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 -- J, C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-29 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Bars 50-57 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Shame On A Nigga?

120 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 Shame On A Nigga hard to play on drums?

60 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 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 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 Shame On A Nigga?

6 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 10, 16, 24, 27, 28, 40 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED