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Fear · B'Z

EXERCISE 26 OF 70
2-bar fill at bar 37
67 / 116 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART V
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
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fear on drums

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.

56 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
116
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 2-23, snare through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-35, snare through bars 36-42, hi-hat through bars 43-55 and snare through bars 56-57, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- D, V -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B (a two-bar phrase) -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part V -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Bars 37-100 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-43 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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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