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Drones (full) · Fear Factory

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove C -- Chorus
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PART A
CHORUS
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART O
PART L
7 groovesCOHLA+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drones (full) on drums

136 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:30 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
136
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-10, hi-hat through bars 11-17, snare through bars 18-25, hi-hat through bars 26-42 and snare through bars 43-61, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11, 13-15 and 18-20, and 7 more places -- 32.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-----x-x-x-x-|
Drones (full) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 95, 108, 112 and 132.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 41-56 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Drones (full)?

120 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 Drones (full) hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

136 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Drones (full)?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 95, 108, 112 and 132.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 136 BARS ANALYSED