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We Are What We Shit · Gutalax

EXERCISE 8 OF 60
Groove R -- Part R (a two-bar phrase)
38 / 112 BARS COVERED
0 / 60 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, PART P
COUNT-IN
PART D
CHORUS
PART R
PART P
PART V
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
10 groovesJDS1RP+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 14
LAND · 14
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play We Are What We Shit on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at 127 BPM, about 3:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
127 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
112
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-15, toms through bars 16-33, hi-hat through bars 34-50, snare through bars 51-70, hi-hat through bars 71-74 and ride through bars 75-85, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-36, 38-40 and 42-44, and 4 more places -- 21.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    34
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
We Are What We Shit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 27 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 45 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part D and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part P -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is We Are What We Shit?

127 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 We Are What We Shit hard to play on drums?

58 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 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 45 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 We Are What We Shit?

14 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 27 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED