Too Drunk To Fuck · Dead Kennedys

133 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 2:40 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

PunkMetalcore / Hardcore150 BPM and up
TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
133
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
71/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 38% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 13 and 21-23, and 11 more places -- 37.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 200 BPM
TOO DRUNK TO FUCK · BARS 5-6
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 14, 20, 24 and 6 more.

LOOP · 200 BPM
BARS 3-4 · LANDS ON BAR 5 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 8 · LANDS ON BAR 9 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15
LOOP · 200 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

133 bars across 11 sections: 90 keep time, 12 are fills, 21 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 89-111.

CHORUS
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART T
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesDNTS1S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Too Drunk To Fuck?

200 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 Too Drunk To Fuck 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?

133 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 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 Too Drunk To Fuck?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 3, 4, 8, 14, 20, 24 and 6 more.

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