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Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today · Fall Out Boy

EXERCISE 28 OF 54
Groove P
129 / 163 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART D
CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART S
CHORUS 4
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesGKQDS+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today on drums

163 bars at 197 BPM -- fast, and 3:19 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
197 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
163
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-3, silence through bars 4-5, ride through bars 6-14, toms through bars 15-17, hi-hat through bars 18-34 and silence through bars 35-38, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-25, 27-29 and 31-33, and 6 more places -- 28.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 50, 58, 74, 98, 106 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 46 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 -- G, Q -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part S2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Bars 19-65 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Bars 66-148 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today?

197 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 Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today hard to play on drums?

63 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

163 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 46 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, 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 Tell That Mick He Just Made My List Of Things To Do Today?

7 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 1, 50, 58, 74, 98, 106 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 163 BARS ANALYSED