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Spitting Off the Edge of the World · Yeah Yeah Yeahs

EXERCISE 27 OF 30
Fill at bar 100, 108 and 116 (a small one)
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CHORUS
PART E
PART D
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesABDES5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Spitting Off the Edge of the World on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 4:13 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
4:13
DIFFICULTY
33/100

snare through bars 1-32, hi-hat through bars 33-56, snare through bars 57-68, hi-hat through bars 69-72, snare through bars 73-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-84, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20, 37-40 and 73-82, and 7 more places -- 40.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x-----------|
Spitting Off the Edge of the World -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 68, 83, 84, 92, 96 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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, A -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 37-67 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 10 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Spitting Off the Edge of the World?

110 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 Spitting Off the Edge of the World hard to play on drums?

33 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 10 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 4:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 5 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Spitting Off the Edge of the World?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 32, 68, 83, 84, 92, 96 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED