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Fairly Local · Twenty One Pilots

EXERCISE 10 OF 17
Groove F
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0 / 17 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, CHORUS 3
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART A
CHORUS 2
PART A
CHORUS 3
BREAK 6
OUTRO
9 groovesEAS12S1S4+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fairly Local on drums

98 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 3:25 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
3:25
DIFFICULTY
29/100

silence through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-16, silence through bars 17-20, hi-hat through bars 21-24, snare through bars 25-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-42, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 17 more places -- 37.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |--x-x-----------|
Fairly Local -- 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 7, 8 and 98.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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, D -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 7-17 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 23-71 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fairly Local?

115 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Fairly Local hard to play on drums?

29 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 3:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fairly Local?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 7, 8 and 98.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED