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Faith · Ghost

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove F -- Chorus
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0 / 29 PASSED · 36 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesFCAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faith on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, ride through bars 25-36, hi-hat through bars 37-51, ride through bars 52-59, hi-hat through bars 60-62 and ride through bars 63-70, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-27, 29-31 and 33-35, and 9 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-----------x---|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x---x-----|
HF |x---x---x---x---|
Faith -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 39, 43, 51 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- F, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 21-71 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Faith?

90 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 Faith hard to play on drums?

52 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 7 sittings, about 24 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 Faith?

6 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 39, 43, 51 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED