Cody Carnes – Firm Foundation · Cody Carnes

117 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 75 BPM, 4:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

Under 90 BPMShuffle / triplet
TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
57/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 9% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 49 and 74-76, and 4 more places -- 9.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 75 BPM
CODY CARNES – FIRM FOUNDATION · BAR 75
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 18 more.

LOOP · 75 BPM
BARS 13-16 · LANDS ON BAR 17 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 75 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25

11 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

117 bars across 12 sections: 50 keep time, 24 are fills, 9 are stops and 21 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 5-12.

PART A
PART N
PART R
CHORUS
PART J
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS7AJRK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Cody Carnes – Firm Foundation?

75 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Cody Carnes – Firm Foundation hard to play on drums?

57 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 20 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, 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 Cody Carnes – Firm Foundation?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED
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