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catch these fists · Wet Leg

EXERCISE 13 OF 42
Groove H -- Part H
76 / 99 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART H
CHORUS
PART E
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART B
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART H
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBEHA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play catch these fists on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 128 BPM, about 3:06 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

54 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
99
LENGTH
3:06
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, kick and crashes through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-45, kick and crashes through bars 46-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-99.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 35-41 and 62-68 -- 21.2% 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-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
catch these fists -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 34, 46, 50, 52, 54 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C, B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-17 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-84 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-69 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-64 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Bars 61-87 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is catch these fists?

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 hard to play on drums?

54 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 3:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 catch these fists?

5 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 24, 34, 46, 50, 52, 54 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED