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Congregation · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 3 OF 63
Groove B (a two-bar phrase)
48 / 195 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT
PART D
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART L
PART Z
PART O
PART AE
11 groovesPOFZG+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 9
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Congregation on drums

195 bars of 4/4 at 152 BPM, about 5:08 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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
152 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
5:08
DIFFICULTY
57/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-10, ride through bars 11-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, ride through bars 33-38 and snare through bars 39-42, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 39-40, 53 and 79-80, and 4 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    39
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Congregation -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 72, 96, 104, 148, 165 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- O, D -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part D and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part G and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Congregation?

152 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 Congregation 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 5:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Congregation?

8 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 32, 72, 96, 104, 148, 165 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED