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Be Careful with a Fool · Johnny Winter

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove B -- Outro
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0 / 23 PASSED · 136 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
CHORUS
OUTRO
3 groovesBS4S2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Be Careful with a Fool on drums

179 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 105 BPM, 5:07 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
179
LENGTH
5:07
DIFFICULTY
48/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-171 and hi-hat through bars 172-179.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 11-16 and 18-28, and 23 more places -- 76.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-|
Be Careful with a Fool -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 31, 53 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 15 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 -- B -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Be Careful with a Fool?

105 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Be Careful with a Fool hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

179 bars, about 5:07 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 22 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 Be Careful with a Fool?

7 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 1, 8, 9, 17, 31, 53 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 179 BARS ANALYSED