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False News Travel Fast · Sonata Arctica

EXERCISE 31 OF 52
Groove T -- Part T
189 / 223 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART T
PART C
CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesEQCIT+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play False News Travel Fast on drums

223 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 7:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
223
LENGTH
7:41
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-9, hi-hat through bars 10-92, silence through bars 93-95, hi-hat through bars 96-97, snare through bars 98-99 and kick and crashes through bars 100-107, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 26-32, 34-41 and 60-66, and 2 more places -- 32.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
False News Travel Fast -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 43, 51 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 -- E, Q -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 43-96 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I -- 8 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part Q and Part T -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part T and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is False News Travel Fast?

115 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 False News Travel Fast hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

223 bars, about 7:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 False News Travel Fast?

13 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 9, 17, 25, 33, 43, 51 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 223 BARS ANALYSED