Talk Shit, Get Shot (Drop D) · Body Count

165 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 3:40 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
46/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27, 30 and 36, and 24 more places -- 16.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 180 BPM
TALK SHIT, GET SHOT (DROP D) · BAR 114
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 25, 33, 40 and 20 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BARS 8-9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 6 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

165 bars across 13 sections: 114 keep time, 26 are fills and 6 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 99-108.

PART C
PART I
CHORUS
PART I
PART I
PART W
CHORUS 3
PART C
OUTRO
5 groovesMICWLFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Talk Shit, Get Shot (Drop D)?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Talk Shit, Get Shot (Drop D) hard to play on drums?

46 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 3:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Talk Shit, Get Shot (Drop D)?

12 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 25, 33, 40 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED
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