FBI · Gee Tee

74 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 1:39 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 42% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2, 4 and 6-9, and 7 more places -- 41.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FBI · BARS 8-9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 5, 29, 31, 57, 59 and 1 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 3 · LANDS ON BAR 4 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 5 · LANDS ON BAR 6
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

74 bars across 7 sections: 55 keep time and 9 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 11-24.

CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBFHFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is FBI?

180 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is FBI hard to play on drums?

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

74 bars, about 1:39 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 14 exercises over 4 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in FBI?

3 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 3, 5, 29, 31, 57, 59 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 74 BARS ANALYSED
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