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So fresh, So Clean · Outkast

EXERCISE 1 OF 8
Groove B
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CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So fresh, So Clean on drums

168 bars at 166 BPM -- fast, and 4:02 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
166 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
168
LENGTH
4:02
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 2-121, silence through bars 122-128 and hi-hat through bars 129-168.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 6-7 and 10-11, and 35 more places -- 47.5% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---x---x-|
So fresh, So Clean -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 7 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, C -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is So fresh, So Clean?

166 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 So fresh, So Clean hard to play on drums?

53 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 52 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

168 bars, about 4:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 7 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 168 BARS ANALYSED