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Fake It · Seether

EXERCISE 6 OF 43
Groove I -- Part I
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COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART O
CHORUS 3
PART S9
PART B
OUTRO
7 groovesDBIOJ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fake It on drums

105 bars of 4/4 at 134 BPM, about 3:08 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
134 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
105
LENGTH
3:08
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-48, snare through bars 49-73, silence through bars 74-79, hi-hat through bars 80-94 and snare through bars 95-105.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17, 19 and 21-22, and 9 more places -- 31.5% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 48, 52, 56 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-26 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-68 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fake It?

134 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 Fake It hard to play on drums?

58 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

105 bars, about 3:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 10 sittings, about 25 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 Fake It?

8 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 16, 24, 40, 48, 52, 56 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 105 BARS ANALYSED