ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Expulsion Of Fury on drums

120 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO: 120 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 120
LENGTH: 4:04
DIFFICULTY: 100/100

ride through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-19, ride through bars 20-27, hi-hat through bars 28-38, snare through bars 39-43 and hi-hat through bars 44-84, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 9-11 and 13-15, and 1 more place -- 10.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    5                                                                6
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------------------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------------------------------|
HH |-----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----o----o-----o----|o----o-----o----o----o-----o------------------------------------|
SD |x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----x----x-----x----|x----x-----x----x----x-----x------------x--x-x-------------x----|
T1 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------X--X-X----------X--X-X----------|
T2 |----------------------------------------------------------------|--------------------------------------------------------X-------|
BD |x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--x-------|x--x-x--x-------x--x-x--x---------------------------------------|

Expulsion Of Fury -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 35, 36 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part G and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Bars 33-41 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part Q -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
and 15 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Expulsion Of Fury?

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 Expulsion Of Fury hard to play on drums?

100 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 92 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

120 bars, about 4:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 23 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Expulsion Of Fury?

8 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 4, 35, 36 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 120 BARS ANALYSED