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Fast Forward To 2012 · A Day To Remember

EXERCISE 8 OF 29
Groove Q -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
27 / 60 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART F
PART K
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesBQNFK+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fast Forward To 2012 on drums

60 bars at 185 BPM -- fast, and 1:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
185 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
60
LENGTH
1:17
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-9, snare through bars 10-15, hi-hat through bars 16-21, toms through bars 22-28, snare through bars 29-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-45, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-8 and 10-17 -- 25.4% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--o---o---o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x---xx--x---xx--|
Fast Forward To 2012 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 28, 29, 37 and 60.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 29-36 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fast Forward To 2012?

185 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fast Forward To 2012 hard to play on drums?

56 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

60 bars, about 1:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Fast Forward To 2012?

4 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 9, 28, 29, 37 and 60.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 60 BARS ANALYSED