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FBI · Gee Tee

FBI · Gee Tee
EXERCISE 16 OF 18
Run H2 · Outro (bars 54-57)
73 / 74 BARS COVERED
0 / 18 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
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
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play FBI on drums

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

61 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
74
LENGTH
1:39
DIFFICULTY
61/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-25, toms through bars 26-29, hi-hat through bars 30-53, toms through bars 54-57 and hi-hat through bars 58-74.

The beat

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.

    8                9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o-o-|o-o-----o-o-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----xxxx----xxxx|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x-----x-x-----|
FBI -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 14 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 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. Bars 26-54 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
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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