← SONGS

Sick Of It · Skillet

EXERCISE 35 OF 57
Join Part J to Part P (bars 57-59)
85 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART J, PART P
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesBPFAJ+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 4
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sick Of It on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 129 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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
129 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-46, snare through bars 47-54 and hi-hat through bars 55-70, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 17-19 and 21-27, and 7 more places -- 39.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 42, 46 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 7-17 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-29 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-59 -- 9 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-76 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 11 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
START THE COURSE ↑

Questions

What BPM is Sick Of It?

129 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 Sick Of It 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Sick Of It?

15 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 28, 42, 46 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED