Fatalist · HALF ME

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
78/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 11% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 15-17 -- 10.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FATALIST · BAR 2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 14, 18, 26, 28, 61 and 4 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 18 · LANDS ON BAR 19 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 26 · LANDS ON BAR 27

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 12 sections: 52 keep time, 10 are fills, 7 are stops and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 45-55.

PART B
PART F
PART B
PART H
CHORUS
PART F
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOFBHA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fatalist?

120 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 Fatalist hard to play on drums?

78 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 74 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fatalist?

6 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 5, 14, 18, 26, 28, 61 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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