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Your Shirt Would Look Better With a Colombian Necktie · I Killed The Prom Queen

EXERCISE 5 OF 58
Run A1 · Part A (bars 1-5)
76 / 172 BARS COVERED
0 / 58 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
PART T
PART Z
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesMIZTAQ+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Your Shirt Would Look Better With a Colombian Necktie on drums

172 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 4:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
172
LENGTH
4:18
DIFFICULTY
56/100

toms through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-18, hi-hat through bars 19-32, snare through bars 33-34, hi-hat through bars 35-36 and snare through bars 37-54, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-30 and 33, and 13 more places -- 22.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    40
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |--x-----x-x---x-|
Your Shirt Would Look Better With a Colombian Necktie -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 46, 69, 70, 74 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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, I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 4-25 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through Part T and Part Z -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Your Shirt Would Look Better With a Colombian Necktie?

160 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 Your Shirt Would Look Better With a Colombian Necktie 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 30 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

172 bars, about 4:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Your Shirt Would Look Better With a Colombian Necktie?

10 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 7, 8, 46, 69, 70, 74 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 172 BARS ANALYSED