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Fangs · Loathe

EXERCISE 7 OF 45
Groove F (a two-bar phrase)
30 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART B
PART AG
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesCBAAAFAG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fangs on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
51/100

snare through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-23, toms through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-40, hi-hat through bars 41-49 and ride through bars 50-55, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-3, 18-20 and 26-28, and 4 more places -- 17.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|
Fangs -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- B, C -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-50 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and Part AA -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  8. Through Part AA and Part B -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fangs?

95 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 Fangs hard to play on drums?

51 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fangs?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 5, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED