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Think Dirty Out Loud · A Lot Like Birds

EXERCISE 1 OF 91
Groove BB -- Part BB
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PART F
PART L
PART B
PART AA
PART S
CHORUS
PART BB
PART BD
PART BE
13 groovesAFSAABBB+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 22
LAND · 22
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Think Dirty Out Loud on drums

157 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
157
LENGTH
4:08
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bar 1, snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-28, snare through bars 29-43, kick and crashes through bars 44-47 and silence through bars 48-51, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 106-120 -- 10.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    107
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
SD |gggggXggXgXX|
BD |X--X--X-x---|
Think Dirty Out Loud -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

22 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 5, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 56 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 68 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 -- BB -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-44 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 1-11 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  7. Through Part L -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 13 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Think Dirty Out Loud?

145 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 Think Dirty Out Loud hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

157 bars, about 4:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 68 exercises over 21 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Think Dirty Out Loud?

22 fills to learn, played 62 times: bars 1, 5, 10, 12, 14, 16 and 56 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 157 BARS ANALYSED