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Fame · David Bowie

EXERCISE 20 OF 48
Groove P
53 / 96 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
CHORUS
PART I
PART M
PART Q
CHORUS 2
PART U
PART Z
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
11 groovesDMAGIU+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 16
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fame on drums

96 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:58 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and floor tom.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
96
LENGTH
3:58
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-96.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 20, 22 and 27-29, and 5 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    22
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
HH |x-----------------------x-------x-----------------------x-------|
SD |r---------------r-------r-------r---------------r-------r-------|
FT |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
Fame -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 36, 37, 92 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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, N, D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through Part I -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-26 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part M -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 26-53 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 2 and Part U -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fame?

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 Fame hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

96 bars, about 3:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 14 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and floor tom. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fame?

3 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 17, 18, 19, 36, 37, 92 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 96 BARS ANALYSED