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Beneath the Fog · sillyserpent

EXERCISE 6 OF 95
Groove U -- Part U (a two-bar phrase)
13 / 126 BARS COVERED
0 / 95 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART U
PART B
PART S3
PART P
PART U
PART Y
PART AE
PART AM
PART AT
CHORUS
PART BF
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
14 groovesAXATBAEBW+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 25
LAND · 25
RUN · 5
JOIN · 14
LINK · 3
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Beneath the Fog on drums

126 bars of 4/4 at a walking 91 BPM, 5:32 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
91 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
126
LENGTH
5:32
DIFFICULTY
73/100

ride through bars 1-11, toms through bars 12-19, snare through bars 20-42, hi-hat through bars 43-55, snare through bars 56-77 and hi-hat through bars 78-89, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 7 and 10, and 5 more places -- 8.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|
RD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------|
Beneath the Fog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

25 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 12, 13, 24 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 69 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 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- U, BW -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 1-122 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-18 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-30 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  7. Through Part U and Part Y -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 34-43 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Beneath the Fog?

91 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Beneath the Fog hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

126 bars, about 5:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 69 exercises over 19 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Beneath the Fog?

25 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 5, 8, 12, 13, 24 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 126 BARS ANALYSED