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

EXERCISE 12 OF 60
Groove G
92 / 165 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, CHORUS
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
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Talk Shit, Get Shot (Drop D) on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
165
LENGTH
3:40
DIFFICULTY
46/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, snare through bars 26-41, hi-hat through bars 42-65, snare through bars 66-81 and hi-hat through bars 82-97, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    114
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--------o-------|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x-x---x-x---x-|
Talk Shit, Get Shot (Drop D) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- M, C -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-117 -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-115 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 36-86 -- 9 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and Part W -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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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