ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fatal on drums

145 bars of 4/4 at 110 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 110 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 145
LENGTH: 5:14
DIFFICULTY: 65/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-20, hi-hat through bars 21-32, snare through bars 33-41, hi-hat through bars 42-43 and snare through bars 44-65, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 118-120, 122-124 and 126-128, and 5 more places -- 14.3% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    118                                                              119
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |--------------------------------x-------------------------------|--------------------------------x-------------------------------|
BD |x-x-x-x-x---------------x-x-x-x-x---------------x-x-x-x-x-------|--------x-x-x-x-x---------------x-x-x-x-x-------x-x-x-x-x-------|

Fatal -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 41 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- AI, C -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part F and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
Bars 27-89 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part I and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Through Part K -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
and 11 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Fatal?

110 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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?

65 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 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 Fatal?

9 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 41 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED