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Short & Stupid · 1Kempfi1

EXERCISE 1 OF 12
Groove D -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDES1S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Short & Stupid on drums

74 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 1:43 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:43
DIFFICULTY
51/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40, snare through bars 41-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72 and snare through bars 73-74.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-24 and 41-72 -- 68.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Short & Stupid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Short & Stupid?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Short & Stupid hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED