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Sick, Dirty & Mean · Accept

EXERCISE 15 OF 47
Fill at bar 44, 72, 85 and 3 more
153 / 202 BARS COVERED
0 / 47 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT
PART A
PART H
PART J
CHORUS
PART H
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
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sick, Dirty & Mean on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
202
LENGTH
4:29
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bars 1-64, ride through bars 65-79, snare through bars 80-81, hi-hat through bars 82-103, kick and crashes through bars 104-105 and ride through bars 106-120, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    65               66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|----------------|
RD |----x---x-------|x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
Sick, Dirty & Mean -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- N, J -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Bars 43-65 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 60-105 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 103-143 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 3 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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