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-F- · Arachnophobia

EXERCISE 5 OF 102
Groove BG -- Part BG (a two-bar phrase)
30 / 219 BARS COVERED
0 / 102 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART AF
PART AQ
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART BF
PART BI
PART BG
PART BM
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesJTAFAQA+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 20
LAND · 20
RUN · 5
JOIN · 17
LINK · 7
SECTION · 15
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play -F- on drums

215 bars at 202 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
202 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
215
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
73/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-14, silence through bars 15-16, kick and crashes through bars 17-21, hi-hat through bars 22-36 and kick and crashes through bars 37-41, and 25 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-28, 30-34 and 42-47, and 2 more places -- 13.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    23
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |o-------o-------o-------o-------|
SD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
BD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
-F- -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 19, 29, 35, 36, 52, 58 and 34 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 81 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 -- J -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- BG, A -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 2-175 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-40 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and the Chorus 2 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part T -- 4 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 15 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is -F-?

202 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is -F- hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

215 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 81 exercises over 23 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 -F-?

20 fills to learn, played 40 times: bars 19, 29, 35, 36, 52, 58 and 34 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 215 BARS ANALYSED