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Failsafe · Misery Signals

EXERCISE 1 OF 81
Groove C -- Part C (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 81 PASSED · 26 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART F
PART H
PART S6
PART C
PART C
PART C
PART AI
PART AN
PART AR
PART C
PART C
BREAK 3
OUTRO
14 groovesWCARHAN+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 3
JOIN · 15
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Failsafe on drums

225 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 5:03 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
225
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bars 1-22, hi-hat through bars 23-55, silence through bars 56-62, ride through bars 63-74, toms through bars 75-78 and ride through bars 79-84, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-16, 75-77 and 83, and 5 more places -- 12.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9                10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---------x-|--x---x---------|
SD |--------xx------|----------xx----|
T1 |----------xx----|------------xx--|
T2 |------------xx--|--------------xx|
BD |x---x---------x-|--x---x---------|
HF |g---g---g---g---|g---g---g---g---|
Failsafe -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 36, 38, 39 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 64 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-51 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H and Part I -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 49-55 -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  8. Through Part S6 and Part AB -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Failsafe?

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 Failsafe hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

225 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 64 exercises over 18 sittings, about 26 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 Failsafe?

16 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 22, 26, 30, 36, 38, 39 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 225 BARS ANALYSED