ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fear Transforms on drums

174 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 180 BPM, 5:26 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 180 BPM
TIME: 6/4
BARS: 174
LENGTH: 5:26
DIFFICULTY: 73/100

snare through bar 1, ride through bars 2-42, kick and crashes through bars 43-68, hi-hat through bars 69-85, ride through bars 86-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-133, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 86-116 -- 16.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    86                                               87
    1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......5.......6.......
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |--------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------------------------x-----------------------|------------------------x-----------x-------x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|

Fear Transforms -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 14, 34, 38, 66, 67 and 18 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- U -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Through Part D -- 4 exercises, about 36 minutes.
Through Part D and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
Bars 31-45 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Bars 45-89 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
Bars 86-134 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
and 9 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Fear Transforms?

180 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Fear Transforms hard to play on drums?

73 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 5:26 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 Transforms?

9 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 6, 14, 34, 38, 66, 67 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED