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Underclass Hero · Sum 41

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove M -- Part M
0 / 154 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 41 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART D
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART M
PART P
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBIDPMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Underclass Hero on drums

154 bars at 192 BPM -- fast, and 3:13 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
192 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
154
LENGTH
3:13
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, ride through bars 34-57, hi-hat through bars 58-73 and ride through bars 74-113, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 35-37, 39-40 and 43-45, and 13 more places -- 26.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    35
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Underclass Hero -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part D and the Chorus 2 -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Underclass Hero?

192 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 Underclass Hero hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

154 bars, about 3:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Underclass Hero?

5 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 41, 49 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 154 BARS ANALYSED