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catch these fists | E · Wet Leg

EXERCISE 9 OF 44
Groove D
54 / 98 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C, PART O
CHORUS
PART C
PART F
PART E
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesASMEF+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play catch these fists | E on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
128 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-50, hi-hat through bars 51-68 and ride through bars 69-76, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-7, 51 and 53, and 7 more places -- 16.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |-xxx-xxxxxxx-xxx|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
catch these fists | E -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 28, 30, 34 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- A, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 25-35 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is catch these fists | E?

128 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 catch these fists | E hard to play on drums?

59 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 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 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 catch these fists | E?

5 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 8, 24, 26, 28, 30, 34 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED