Sick, Dirty & Mean · Accept

202 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:29 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

MetalRock150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 28% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-71, 73-79 and 106-112, and 5 more places -- 28.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 180 BPM
SICK, DIRTY & MEAN · BARS 65-66
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 36, 44, 52, 56, 60 and 19 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 63-64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

6 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

202 bars across 12 sections: 134 keep time, 26 are fills, 30 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 106-121.

PART A
PART J
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
PART H
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNAJHYFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Sick, Dirty & Mean?

180 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 Sick, Dirty & Mean hard to play on drums?

57 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

202 bars, about 4:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 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 Sick, Dirty & Mean?

10 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 16, 36, 44, 52, 56, 60 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 202 BARS ANALYSED
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