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Facewreck · No Retreat

Facewreck · No Retreat
EXERCISE 5 OF 39
Groove K -- Outro 2
30 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART K, OUTRO 2
PART S2
PART G
PART J
PART G
PART K
PART S7
CHORUS
PART P
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesNGKPJ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 3
JOIN · 9
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Facewreck on drums

89 bars at 155 BPM -- fast, and 2:18 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
155 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
65/100

silence through bars 1-6, toms through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-37, silence through bars 38-40, toms through bars 41-42 and hi-hat through bars 43-50, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 43-50 and 63-70 -- 20.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 41, 42, 51 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- N -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 2-19 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-36 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-43 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-89 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Facewreck?

155 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 Facewreck hard to play on drums?

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

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 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 Facewreck?

5 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 2, 7, 8, 41, 42, 51 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED