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Build It Up · Franz Ferdinand

EXERCISE 4 OF 29
Fill at bar 11 and 30 (a small one)
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PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART S6
BREAK 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJBIQS6+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Build It Up on drums

70 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 3:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
70
LENGTH
3:02
DIFFICULTY
42/100

hi-hat through bars 2-11, kick and crashes through bars 12-14, hi-hat through bars 15-30, kick and crashes through bars 31-32, hi-hat through bars 33-49 and silence through bars 50-52, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8, 10 and 23-25 -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-o-x-o-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Build It Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 11, 26, 30, 33, 34 and 42.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 19-30 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 27-55 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Build It Up?

90 BPM, in 4/4, 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 Build It Up hard to play on drums?

42 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

70 bars, about 3:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Build It Up?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 11, 26, 30, 33, 34 and 42.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 70 BARS ANALYSED