Everybody's Fool · Evanescence

75 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:09 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

MetalAlternative / Indie90 to 119 BPMBeginner
TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 46% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7, 9 and 12-13, and 22 more places -- 46% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 95 BPM
EVERYBODY'S FOOL · BAR 7
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 26, 36, 50, 56, 72 and 1 more.

LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 6 · LANDS ON BAR 7
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 95 BPM
BAR 50 · LANDS ON BAR 51

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

75 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time, 7 are fills and 12 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 12-23.

COUNT-IN
PART D
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
BREAK
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesCEDS7S1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Everybody's Fool?

95 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 Everybody's Fool hard to play on drums?

56 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 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

75 bars, about 3:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Everybody's Fool?

6 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 6, 26, 36, 50, 56, 72 and 1 more.

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