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Far Far away Full · Slade

EXERCISE 2 OF 48
Groove K -- Chorus
16 / 101 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 15 BARS LIT
PART C
PART D
PART H
PART E
PART D
CHORUS
PART P
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesKTDNE+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Far Far away Full on drums

101 bars of 4/4 at 112 BPM, about 3:36 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
112 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
101
LENGTH
3:36
DIFFICULTY
70/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-12, ride through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-21, ride through bars 22-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-32, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-12, 34-36 and 74-76, and 2 more places -- 15.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |o-----o-----o-----o-----|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---x-----x-x---x-----x-|
Far Far away Full -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 37, 57, 69, 81 and 97.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part D and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  8. Through Part H and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Far Far away Full?

112 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 Far Far away Full hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

101 bars, about 3:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 15 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid 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 Far Far away Full?

4 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 1, 37, 57, 69, 81 and 97.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 101 BARS ANALYSED