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Fat Lip · Sum 41

EXERCISE 8 OF 50
Groove E
70 / 145 BARS COVERED
0 / 50 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART M, OUTRO 2
PART F
PART M
PART F
PART M
BREAK 2
PART R
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDFMRS10+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fat Lip on drums

145 bars at 195 BPM -- fast, and 2:58 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
195 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-7, snare through bars 8-16, hi-hat through bars 17-32, snare through bars 33-50, hi-hat through bars 51-66 and snare through bars 67-74, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 21 more places -- 22.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---x---------x-|
Fat Lip -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 50, 66, 74, 104 and 3 more.

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 -- C, M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Bars 12-40 -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part M -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  6. Through Part F and Part M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 38-75 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Break 2 -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fat Lip?

195 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 Fat Lip hard to play on drums?

61 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fat Lip?

6 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 32, 40, 50, 66, 74, 104 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED