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EXERCISE 25 OF 33
Groove R
108 / 124 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
PART G
PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART G
OUTRO
6 groovesIGMS13S2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Bound To Fail on drums

124 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 4:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
124
LENGTH
4:55
DIFFICULTY
54/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, silence through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-80, kick and crashes through bars 81-90, toms through bars 91-92 and hi-hat through bars 93-124.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 19-21, 23-25 and 27-29, and 4 more places -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    19
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Bound To Fail -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 26, 38, 42, 46, 58 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- I, G -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-19 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-39 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-70 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Break 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Bound To Fail?

100 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 Bound To Fail hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how fine the subdivision is. The beat itself is 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

124 bars, about 4:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Bound To Fail?

6 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 14, 26, 38, 42, 46, 58 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 124 BARS ANALYSED