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We Are Sex Bob-omb [Corrected] · Sex Bob-Omb

EXERCISE 14 OF 23
Groove L -- Outro
75 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 23 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
PART D
CHORUS
PART H
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesECHLD+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are Sex Bob-omb [Corrected] on drums

89 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:59 of it without a break -- on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
1:59
DIFFICULTY
47/100

hi-hat through bars 3-20, snare through bars 21-24 and hi-hat through bars 25-89.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 26 more places -- 33% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-----o---o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
We Are Sex Bob-omb [Corrected] -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, C -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Bars 6-21 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 13-47 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is We Are Sex Bob-omb [Corrected]?

180 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 We Are Sex Bob-omb [Corrected] hard to play on drums?

47 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 1:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED