A Fool for Your Stockings 2 · ZZ Top

82 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 116 BPM, 4:11 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

90 to 119 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
116 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
82
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-9, 11-13 and 15, and 10 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 116 BPM
A FOOL FOR YOUR STOCKINGS 2 · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 20, 26, 30 and 15 more.

LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 116 BPM
BARS 40-46 · LANDS ON BAR 47 · PLAYED 7 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

82 bars across 3 sections: 28 keep time, 21 are fills, 1 is a stop and 32 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 21-25.

COUNT-IN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesCS3S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is A Fool for Your Stockings 2?

116 BPM, in 6/4, 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 A Fool for Your Stockings 2 hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

82 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 10 exercises over 3 sittings, about 30 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 A Fool for Your Stockings 2?

5 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 10, 14, 18, 20, 26, 30 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 82 BARS ANALYSED
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