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Sports · Viagra Boys

EXERCISE 11 OF 14
Run C1 · Outro (bars 69-80)
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0 / 14 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
2 groovesACFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sports on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
51/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-68 and 81-96 -- 86.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 72.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- A -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Sports?

133 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 Sports hard to play on drums?

51 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Sports?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 70 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED