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Fanfare · Magic City Hippies

Fanfare · Magic City Hippies
EXERCISE 3 OF 24
Groove I -- Part I
35 / 84 BARS COVERED
0 / 24 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
PART D
CHORUS
VERSE
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART J
PART K
OUTRO
9 groovesGDKIP+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fanfare on drums

84 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 4:12 of playing, on hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
84
LENGTH
4:12
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-56, kick and crashes through bars 57-64, hi-hat through bars 65-72, silence through bars 73-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-84.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-20 and 37-48 -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x------xx-x---x-|
Fanfare -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G, D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-27 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 26-52 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 55-71 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fanfare?

80 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 Fanfare hard to play on drums?

48 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 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

84 bars, about 4:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 84 BARS ANALYSED