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stupid song · Olivia Rodrigo

EXERCISE 3 OF 29
Groove F -- Part F (a two-bar phrase)
20 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART V, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
PART P
PART V
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesBPFKV+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play stupid song on drums

74 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-36, silence through bars 37-43, hi-hat through bars 44-45, snare through bars 46-47 and hi-hat through bars 48-49, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-20 and 22-23, and 2 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 59 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, P -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 24-47 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-36 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part K -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is stupid song?

127 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 song hard to play on drums?

62 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 59 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in stupid song?

3 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 46, 48, 49, 50, 51, 59 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED