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Fatal · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 1 OF 36
Groove F -- Part F
0 / 184 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 29 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
PART F
PART F
CHORUS
PART R
12 groovesPFHCR+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fatal on drums

184 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 4:31 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
184
LENGTH
4:31
DIFFICULTY
51/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-28, snare through bars 29-37, toms through bars 38-44, hi-hat through bars 45-65 and kick and crashes through bars 66-68, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-27, 49-55 and 57-63 -- 17.8% 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+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Fatal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 12, 44, 72, 84, 152 and 3 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- F, H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- R -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part C -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 5-32 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 35-45 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 45-85 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 153-181 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fatal?

149 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 Fatal hard to play on drums?

51 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 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

184 bars, about 4:31 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 8 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fatal?

4 fills to learn, played 9 times: bars 4, 12, 44, 72, 84, 152 and 3 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 184 BARS ANALYSED