Fairweather · Mondrary

127 bars at 199 BPM -- fast, and 2:34 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
199 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
80/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 13% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 27-30, 39-42 and 94-97, and 1 more place -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 199 BPM
FAIRWEATHER · BAR 27
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 32, 33, 34, 36 and 30 more.

LOOP · 199 BPM
BARS 6-7 · LANDS ON BAR 8 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 199 BPM
BARS 32-34 · LANDS ON BAR 35 · PLAYED 12 TIMES
LOOP · 199 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 199 BPM
BARS 65-66 · LANDS ON BAR 67 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

4 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

127 bars across 12 sections: 67 keep time, 36 are fills and 7 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

PART B
PART G
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART AA
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMAARGU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fairweather?

199 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 Fairweather hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 96 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

127 bars, about 2:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 16 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Fairweather?

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 6, 7, 32, 33, 34, 36 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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