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Teeth · 5 Seconds Of Summer

EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove C -- Chorus
0 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 58 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS5S3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Teeth on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at 139 BPM, about 2:42 of playing, on hi-hat, snare and kick.

0 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats.

TEMPO
139 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
2:42
DIFFICULTY
0/100

silence through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-29, silence through bars 30-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-54, silence through bars 55-69 and kick and crashes through bars 70-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 6-12, 14-21 and 24, and 5 more places -- 84.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Teeth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  2. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Teeth?

139 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 Teeth hard to play on drums?

0 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is how little of it repeats. The beat itself is 0 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 2:42 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 sittings, about 19 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

hi-hat, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED