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SPKYGRGE (stupid song) · Bullets On Toast

SPKYGRGE (stupid song) · Bullets On Toast
EXERCISE 1 OF 21
Groove M -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
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CHORUS
PART S3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesMS3S5S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play SPKYGRGE (stupid song) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
140
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
70/100

ride through bars 1-51, silence through bars 52-54, ride through bars 55-71, toms through bars 72-80, hi-hat through bars 81-96 and ride through bars 97-124, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13           14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-|--x-x-x-x-x-|
HH |o-----------|o-----------|
SD |--x--x--x--x|----xx-xx-xx|
BD |x--xxx--xxx-|-xxx--xxx--x|
SPKYGRGE (stupid song) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- M -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 2 exercises, about 9 minutes.
  5. Through Part S3 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 56 minutes.
  6. Bars 55-131 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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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