Description
Notes From John
BPM = 176. Hi-hats loose are marked. Open hats are marked. Bridge Intro, Bridge, and Outro flip ska/reggae. Watch the BPM = 101 end.
For the player
Nick Varano on the Evildoers Beware! cut — third-wave ska-punk sprint, no warm-up lap. Sit in the pocket under those horns and guitar; don’t invent a second backbeat. Chorus runs are the fast rock beat John called out — hi-hats loose are written there; leave them sloshy. Verses flip to hi-hats normal with open hats marked; bark the opens where John wrote the circle. Closed hats are marked too — choke the closes. Bridge Intro hits at 1:59, Bridge at 2:05, Outro at 3:21 — those are the ska/reggae flips; don’t play them like the chorus rock beat. Busy, syncopated kick under the hands on the rock sections. Accents and flams into the phrase turns stay as written. Ghosts in the Bridge stay quiet. Extended Chorus at 2:59 (“No! No! No!…”) is the half-time shout before the Outro. Last bars drop to BPM = 101 — feel that gear change; don’t drag into it early. Listen first; the pocket at BPM = 176 is the job, not the count-in.
Drum Sheet Music for “Beer (Song)” by Mustard Plug
