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Sir This Is A Cutthroat Fashion · Her Words Kill

EXERCISE 1 OF 80
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 187 BARS COVERED
0 / 80 PASSED · 24 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART G
PART X
PART AD
PART AH
PART AR
CHORUS 2
16 groovesBXGARN+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 20
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 6
JOIN · 16
LINK · 5
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sir This Is A Cutthroat Fashion on drums

187 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 4:49 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
187
LENGTH
4:49
DIFFICULTY
82/100

snare through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, snare through bars 29-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-45, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4 and 6, and 21 more places -- 13.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 44, 48, 56, 64, 85, 117 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 70 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 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 36-49 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 16 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Sir This Is A Cutthroat Fashion?

155 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

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

82 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

187 bars, about 4:49 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 70 exercises over 24 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Sir This Is A Cutthroat Fashion?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 44, 48, 56, 64, 85, 117 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 187 BARS ANALYSED