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BFG Division · Mick Gordon

EXERCISE 1 OF 26
Groove E -- Chorus
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PART S2
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART G
CHORUS 4
PART S12
CHORUS 5
PART S16
BREAK 3
14 groovesES16S20S2S12+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play BFG Division on drums

299 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 232 BPM, 6:43 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

39 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
232 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
299
LENGTH
6:43
DIFFICULTY
39/100

silence through bars 1-23, kick and crashes through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-32, silence through bars 33-40, snare through bars 41-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-64, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 15 more places -- 40.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------|
BD |X-x-x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x-|
BFG Division -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 25 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 -- E, D -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-105 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 121-223 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 222-238 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is BFG Division?

232 BPM, in 6/4, 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 BFG Division hard to play on drums?

39 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

299 bars, about 6:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 25 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

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