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Dear Mr Fantasy · Traffic

Dear Mr Fantasy · Traffic
EXERCISE 11 OF 56
Groove D
60 / 117 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART B
PART A
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesGAPAHB+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear Mr Fantasy on drums

117 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 5:51 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
117
LENGTH
5:51
DIFFICULTY
70/100

hi-hat through bars 1-27, ride through bars 28-45, snare through bars 46-54, ride through bars 55-69, hi-hat through bars 70-81 and snare through bars 82-85, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 10-15 and 18-21, and 2 more places -- 20.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    1
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------------x-----------------------|
Dear Mr Fantasy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 37, 41, 44, 45, 49 and 7 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 -- A, G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part A -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-65 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dear Mr Fantasy?

80 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Dear Mr Fantasy hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

117 bars, about 5:51 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dear Mr Fantasy?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 16, 37, 41, 44, 45, 49 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 117 BARS ANALYSED