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F.U.B.B. · Wishbone Ash

F.U.B.B. · Wishbone Ash
EXERCISE 7 OF 75
Groove G -- Part G
165 / 311 BARS COVERED
0 / 75 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART AD, PART G
CHORUS
PART D
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART AD
PART G
PART F
PART F
11 groovesEFDAGO+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play F.U.B.B. on drums

311 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 8:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
311
LENGTH
8:56
DIFFICULTY
60/100

kick and crashes through bars 3-13, silence through bars 14-15, hi-hat through bars 16-109, snare through bars 110-112, hi-hat through bars 113-126 and ride through bars 127-132, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21 and 23-35, and 25 more places -- 25.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    17
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
HH |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x---x-------x-----------x-------|
F.U.B.B. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 135, 143, 147, 151, 166, 169 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 56 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 157-204 -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part D and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part O -- 7 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  7. Through Part O and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part D -- 10 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is F.U.B.B.?

140 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 F.U.B.B. hard to play on drums?

60 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

311 bars, about 8:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 56 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 F.U.B.B.?

18 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 135, 143, 147, 151, 166, 169 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 311 BARS ANALYSED