ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sick Like Me on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 132 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO: 132 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 165
LENGTH: 5:00
DIFFICULTY: 62/100

silence through bars 1-21, toms through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48, silence through bars 49-66 and snare through bars 67-68, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-26, 29-30 and 33-34, and 28 more places -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25                               26
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x---------x-----x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|----------------x---------------|
BD |x-----------x-----x-----x-------|----x-------x-x---x-----x-------|

Sick Like Me -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 23, 28, 36 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- P, R (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Bars 47-59 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Sick Like Me?

132 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Sick Like Me hard to play on drums?

62 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?

165 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 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 Like Me?

8 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 18, 20, 22, 23, 28, 36 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED