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FCPREMIX (Full step down) · Bleh

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove B -- Chorus
0 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 48 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART F
PART M
PART Q
OUTRO 2
9 groovesBMFIQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play FCPREMIX (Full step down) on drums

180 bars at 175 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
175 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
75/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-33, toms through bars 34-36, hi-hat through bars 37-38, toms through bars 39-44 and hi-hat through bars 45-46, and 23 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-11, 13-15 and 17-19, and 13 more places -- 27.9% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x-----x-----x-------x-----------|
FCPREMIX (Full step down) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 35 and 14 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 38 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 33 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase), F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-49 -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 61-116 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part P -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is FCPREMIX (Full step down)?

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

Is FCPREMIX (Full step down) hard to play on drums?

75 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 38 exercises over 13 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 FCPREMIX (Full step down)?

4 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 35 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED