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Covering Fire · Havok

EXERCISE 12 OF 33
Join Part F to Chorus 2 (bars 24-26)
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0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, CHORUS 2
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
PART F
CHORUS 3
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBFKIMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Covering Fire on drums

151 bars at 200 BPM -- fast, and 3:01 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
200 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
151
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
76/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-9, ride through bars 10-13, hi-hat through bars 14-23, ride through bars 24-25 and hi-hat through bars 26-55, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 22-23, and 14 more places -- 38.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
Covering Fire -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 29, 61, 109, 121, 133 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 22-74 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 75-109 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Covering Fire?

200 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Covering Fire hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 68 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

151 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 10 sittings, about 24 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 Covering Fire?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 13, 29, 61, 109, 121, 133 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 151 BARS ANALYSED