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Stupid · Fleece

Stupid · Fleece
EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove G -- Chorus
0 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 35 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART K
PART D
9 groovesGKDSS1+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Stupid on drums

116 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 3:34 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:34
DIFFICULTY
57/100

hi-hat through bar 1, silence through bars 2-6, hi-hat through bars 7-41, ride through bars 42-56, hi-hat through bars 57-90 and ride through bars 91-105, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 9 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|
HH |--x-o-x-x-x-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----xxx-x---x-|
Stupid -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 12, 13, 40, 41, 49 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- G, K -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Bars 6-24 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-62 -- 8 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 82-91 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Stupid?

130 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 Stupid hard to play on drums?

57 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?

116 bars, about 3:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Stupid?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 7, 12, 13, 40, 41, 49 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED