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Fairweather · Mondrary

Fairweather · Mondrary
EXERCISE 2 OF 51
Groove R -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
16 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART R, OUTRO 2
PART B
PART G
CHORUS
PART R
CHORUS 2
PART R
PART U
PART AA
CHORUS 3
PART R
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesMAARGU+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 7
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fairweather on drums

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.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
199 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
2:34
DIFFICULTY
80/100

ride through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-22, snare through bars 23-26, ride through bars 27-31, toms through bars 32-37 and ride through bars 38-43, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    27
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
RD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
Fairweather -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- M -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- AA -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 1 exercise, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part B and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Bars 22-35 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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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