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Everybody's Fool · Evanescence

EXERCISE 17 OF 28
Hold Groove C for 8 bars -- Chorus 2 (bars 34-41)
60 / 75 BARS COVERED
0 / 28 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Everybody's Fool on drums

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

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
75
LENGTH
3:09
DIFFICULTY
56/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-42, silence through bars 43-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-75.

The beat

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.

    7
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |x-----x---x---x-|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
Everybody's Fool -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 34-73 -- 8 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 75 BARS ANALYSED