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U Should Not Be Doing That · Amyl And The Sniffers

EXERCISE 24 OF 34
Run K1 · Part K (bars 67-81)
88 / 104 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K
PART C
PART E
CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesFCKEB+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play U Should Not Be Doing That on drums

104 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
104
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 3-66, ride through bars 67-73 and hi-hat through bars 74-104.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 11-13, and 9 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
U Should Not Be Doing That -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 34, 42, 66 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- B, F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-62 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 78-93 -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is U Should Not Be Doing That?

123 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 U Should Not Be Doing That hard to play on drums?

56 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

104 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 U Should Not Be Doing That?

1 fill to learn, played 4 times: bars 34, 42, 66 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 104 BARS ANALYSED