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Fabulous Disaster · Exodus

EXERCISE 1 OF 67
Groove AD -- Part AD
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0 / 67 PASSED · 43 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AD
PART F
PART H
PART R
PART U
CHORUS
PART X
PART AD
PART R
PART U
CHORUS 2
8 groovesWADRHU+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 7
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fabulous Disaster on drums

251 bars at 172 BPM -- fast, and 5:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
172 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
251
LENGTH
5:50
DIFFICULTY
76/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, toms through bars 4-8, ride through bars 9-46, hi-hat through bars 47-79, ride through bars 80-124 and hi-hat through bars 125-172, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 125-131, 133-139 and 141-147, and 2 more places -- 17.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    125
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Fabulous Disaster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 16, 24, 27, 31 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- AD -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part H -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part R -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part R and Part S -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fabulous Disaster?

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

Is Fabulous Disaster hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

251 bars, about 5:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 14 sittings, about 27 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 Fabulous Disaster?

15 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 2, 4, 16, 24, 27, 31 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 251 BARS ANALYSED