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Cody Carnes – Firm Foundation · Cody Carnes

EXERCISE 1 OF 63
Groove J -- Part J
0 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART A
PART H
PART N
PART R
CHORUS
PART J
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesS7AJRK+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Cody Carnes – Firm Foundation on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
75 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-12, toms through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-27, toms through bars 28-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-40, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    75
    1...........2...........3...........
RD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
BD |x-----------------------------------|
Cody Carnes – Firm Foundation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, N -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part H -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 24-110 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part N and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 35-49 -- 6 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  8. Bars 39-82 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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