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Faster · Within Temptation

EXERCISE 10 OF 48
Groove F
93 / 127 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesKEBIS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Faster on drums

127 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
127
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-32, snare through bars 33-48, hi-hat through bars 49-72 and snare through bars 73-102, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 41-43 and 45-47, and 12 more places -- 32.8% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    33
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x-----|
Faster -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 28, 32, 40, 44, 48 and 12 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 -- K -- 4 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B, E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part E -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part E and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 32-49 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 47-69 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 8 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 73-127 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Faster?

120 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 Faster hard to play on drums?

48 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?

127 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 34 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Faster?

13 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 12, 28, 32, 40, 44, 48 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 127 BARS ANALYSED