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EXERCISE 1 OF 47
Groove B -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
CHORUS 3
PART L
PART N
PART Q
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBGQLN+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 6
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fast As A Shark on drums

119 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 3:23 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
119
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
87/100

hi-hat through bars 3-28, ride through bars 29-35, hi-hat through bars 36-48, ride through bars 49-55, snare through bars 56-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-79, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3-5, 7-9 and 12-14, and 10 more places -- 37.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 15, 19, 23 and 32 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 34 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 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part G and the Chorus 3 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  4. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-36 -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 34-75 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 76-88 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fast As A Shark?

140 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 Fast As A Shark hard to play on drums?

87 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 77 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

119 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 11 sittings, about 25 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 Fast As A Shark?

12 fills to learn, played 38 times: bars 6, 10, 11, 15, 19, 23 and 32 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 119 BARS ANALYSED