Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers · Primus

125 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 5:33 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Alternative / IndieMetal90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
70/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 18% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-34, 49-51 and 53-59 -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 90 BPM
THOSE DAMNED BLUE-COLLAR TWEEKERS · BAR 25
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 16, 36, 60, 72, 81 and 15 more.

LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 15-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 90 BPM
BAR 72 · LANDS ON BAR 73
LOOP · 90 BPM
BARS 81-84 · LANDS ON BAR 85 · PLAYED 4 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

125 bars across 9 sections: 78 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 14 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 37-59.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
PART O
PART W
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesGEYDS1+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers?

90 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 15, 16, 36, 60, 72, 81 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED
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