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Fatalist · HALF ME

EXERCISE 25 OF 48
Join Part H to Part M (bars 31-33)
43 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, PART M
PART B
PART F
PART B
PART H
PART M
CHORUS
PART F
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesOFBHA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fatalist on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
78/100

snare through bars 2-9, hi-hat through bars 10-17, toms through bars 18-20, snare through bars 21-28, hi-hat through bars 29-37 and silence through bars 38-42, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    2
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |---x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----x-----|
Fatalist -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- B -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F, M -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part F and Part B -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part H -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 31-41 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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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