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Sure Shot · Beastie Boys

EXERCISE 3 OF 21
Join Chorus to Break (bars 9-11)
48 / 82 BARS COVERED
0 / 21 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART H
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
9 groovesCHS1ES13+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Sure Shot on drums

82 bars of 4/4 at a walking 98 BPM, 3:20 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
98 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
3:20
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-7, ride through bars 8-43, hi-hat through bars 44-50, snare through bars 51-55, ride through bars 56-63 and hi-hat through bars 64-66, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 8-10, 12 and 14-15, and 12 more places -- 58.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x--x----x--x|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Sure Shot -- 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 45 and 51.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- C, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 9-28 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 27-57 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 4 and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 51-82 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Sure Shot?

98 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 Sure Shot hard to play on drums?

48 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 3:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 exercises over 6 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Sure Shot?

2 fills to learn, played 2 times: bars 45 and 51.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED