SPKYGRGE (stupid song) · Bullets On Toast

140 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 134 BPM, 3:20 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-14, 18 and 20, and 9 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 134 BPM
SPKYGRGE (STUPID SONG) · BARS 13-14
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 and 88 more.

LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 1-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 14-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 15 TIMES
LOOP · 134 BPM
BAR 23 · LANDS ON BAR 24
LOOP · 134 BPM
BARS 31-45 · LANDS ON BAR 46 · PLAYED 15 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

161 bars across 5 sections: 32 keep time, 94 are fills, 1 is a stop and 33 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-13.

CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMS3S5S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is SPKYGRGE (stupid song)?

134 BPM, in 3/4, 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 SPKYGRGE (stupid song) hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 78 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

140 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 7 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 SPKYGRGE (stupid song)?

6 fills to learn, played 94 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 14, 15 and 88 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 140 BARS ANALYSED
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