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Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion · Her Words Kill

EXERCISE 1 OF 96
Groove B -- Part B
0 / 188 BARS COVERED
0 / 96 PASSED · 16 BARS LIT
PART B
PART A
PART E
PART N
PART Z
PART O
PART AL
PART AU
PART BC
CHORUS
22 groovesBGZNOAL+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 26
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 5
JOIN · 18
LINK · 7
SECTION · 19
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion on drums

188 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 5:00 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
188
LENGTH
5:00
DIFFICULTY
73/100

snare through bars 1-16, hi-hat through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-69, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 13 more places -- 8.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    163
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-x-------------|
Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 74, 85, 117, 125, 131, 133 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 85 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 -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-42 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part H -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part K -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion?

150 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 Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

188 bars, about 5:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 85 exercises over 28 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Sir, This Is A Cutthroat Fashion?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 74, 85, 117, 125, 131, 133 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 188 BARS ANALYSED