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EXERCISE 17 OF 24
Fill at bar 55 (a small one)
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0 / 24 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
COUNT-IN
PART S2
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesNZS1S2KFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faith on drums

64 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:40 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
64
LENGTH
2:40
DIFFICULTY
78/100

silence through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-19, hi-hat through bars 20-62 and toms through bars 63-64.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 25-31 and 33-39 -- 26.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25                                                               26
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |o---------------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|----------------x-----------g-------------------x-----------g---|
BD |x-----------------------x---------------x-----------------------|--------x-----------------------x-------------------------------|
Faith -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 44, 48, 55, 57, 59 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 18 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 -- N -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Z -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 19-54 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Faith?

96 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

64 bars, about 2:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 18 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?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 44, 48, 55, 57, 59 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 64 BARS ANALYSED