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Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers · Primus

EXERCISE 19 OF 38
Run E2 · Part E (bars 64-76)
70 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 38 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 7
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-14, toms through bars 15-16, hi-hat through bars 17-68, ride through bars 69-84, toms through bars 85-108 and hi-hat through bars 109-116, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

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.

    25
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweekers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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, D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 15-67 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 64-86 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part O and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  8. Through Part W and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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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