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Fault And Fracture · Converge

EXERCISE 8 OF 37
Groove O -- Part O (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 37 PASSED · 5 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART O
CHORUS
PART F
PART E
PART O
PART S5
OUTRO
7 groovesAES5ABF+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fault And Fracture on drums

62 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 2:47 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
62
LENGTH
2:47
DIFFICULTY
91/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-39, silence through bars 40-42, ride through bars 43-50 and snare through bars 51-57, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 20, and 3 more places -- 10.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |--x-----------------------------|
HH |------o---o-------o---o---o-----|
SD |--x---x---x---xx--x---x---x-xxxx|
T1 |x-------------------------------|
FT |x-------------------------------|
BD |x-------x--x-x--x-------x-------|
Fault And Fracture -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 16, 17 and 20 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AB -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. Through Part F and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fault And Fracture?

96 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 Fault And Fracture hard to play on drums?

91 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 71 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

62 bars, about 2:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 12 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fault And Fracture?

7 fills to learn, played 26 times: bars 3, 4, 7, 8, 16, 17 and 20 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 62 BARS ANALYSED