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Fast as you can · Fiona Apple

EXERCISE 1 OF 61
Groove U -- Chorus
0 / 152 BARS COVERED
0 / 61 PASSED · 27 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
PART E
PART N
PART N
CHORUS
PART K
PART AD
PART C
OUTRO
11 groovesUKCNE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 6
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fast as you can on drums

152 bars of 4/4 at 138 BPM, about 4:22 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
138 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
152
LENGTH
4:22
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 2-150 and kick and crashes through bars 151-152.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 50-63, 65-75 and 77-78 -- 18% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |------x-----|
BD |x---------x-|
Fast as you can -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 5, 28, 36, 64, 79 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- U, K -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and Part N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-121 -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 17-135 -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part E and Part N -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fast as you can?

138 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 you can hard to play on drums?

55 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

152 bars, about 4:22 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 17 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 you can?

6 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 4, 5, 28, 36, 64, 79 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 152 BARS ANALYSED