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Fatback · Bumblefoot

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove D -- Outro 2 (a two-bar phrase)
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PART A
CHORUS
PART A
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesFDALFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fatback on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 80 BPM, 3:04 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
80 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:04
DIFFICULTY
56/100

ride through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-28, ride through bars 29-36 and hi-hat through bars 37-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 5-7, 18-20 and 53-63, and 1 more place -- 33.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    5                6
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e
CC |-----x----------|x-----|
RD |----------------|--x-x-|
HH |o-o-o---o-o-o-o-|------|
SD |----x-------x---|---x--|
BD |x-x--x--x-x-----|x-x---|
Fatback -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 15, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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 -- D, F -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 9 exercises, about 36 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-72 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fatback?

80 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 Fatback hard to play on drums?

56 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:04 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fatback?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 2, 15, 30, 32, 34, 36 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED