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34. Flower Man · Toby Fox

EXERCISE 18 OF 41
Fill at bar 40 and 120 (a small one)
102 / 128 BARS COVERED
0 / 41 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
PART A
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART S5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDAFQS5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play 34. Flower Man on drums

128 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 3:12 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
128
LENGTH
3:12
DIFFICULTY
77/100

snare through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, ride through bars 25-30, snare through bars 31-32 and ride through bars 33-46, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 25-30 and 33-39, and 8 more places -- 64% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x--x-x-x|
34. Flower Man -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 32, 40 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-33 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part S5 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 69-81 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is 34. Flower Man?

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 34. Flower Man hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

128 bars, about 3:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 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 34. Flower Man?

11 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 8, 16, 24, 31, 32, 40 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 128 BARS ANALYSED