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shit list · L7

EXERCISE 14 OF 48
Join Part D to Chorus (bars 10-12)
56 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS
PART M
PART J
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBMJDV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play shit list on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-5, snare through bars 6-11, hi-hat through bars 12-35, ride through bars 36-45 and snare through bars 46-47, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 4-5, 12-18 and 20-22, and 4 more places -- 26.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    4                5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|x-----x---x---x-|
shit list -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 30, 31, 33 and 18 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 -- B, M -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 4-48 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-47 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 44-56 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 54-62 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part Y and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-76 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is shit list?

130 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 shit list hard to play on drums?

52 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 shit list?

12 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 11, 19, 23, 30, 31, 33 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED