Fear · B'Z

116 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockPop120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
56/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 15% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-7, 10-12 and 16-18, and 4 more places -- 14.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 123 BPM
FEAR · BAR 5
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 13, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 52 more.

LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 13 · LANDS ON BAR 14
LOOP · 123 BPM
BAR 15 · LANDS ON BAR 16
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 23-29 · LANDS ON BAR 30 · PLAYED 7 TIMES
LOOP · 123 BPM
BARS 31-35 · LANDS ON BAR 36 · PLAYED 5 TIMES

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

116 bars across 12 sections: 40 keep time, 58 are fills, 3 are stops and 1 is silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 2-12.

CHORUS
PART J
PART V
CHORUS 2
PART V
PART V
OUTRO
8 groovesDVJWAA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fear?

123 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 Fear 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

116 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 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 Fear?

17 fills to learn, played 58 times: bars 13, 15, 23, 24, 25, 26 and 52 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 116 BARS ANALYSED
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