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Fade · Human Tetris

EXERCISE 14 OF 19
Join Part E to Outro (bars 160-162)
171 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 19 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
CHORUS
PART E
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesADGEFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fade on drums

178 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 4:00 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
59/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-96, 99-147 and 176-178 -- 83.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 97, 98 and 158.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part D and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 160-176 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fade?

178 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 Fade hard to play on drums?

59 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 5 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fade?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 97, 98 and 158.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED