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Fearless · For Today

EXERCISE 30 OF 70
Join Part O to Part Q (bars 52-54)
95 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART Q
PART C
PART I
PART O
PART Q
CHORUS
PART Y
PART AE
CHORUS 2
12 groovesSICAEY+7Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 3
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fearless on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 4:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
4:36
DIFFICULTY
49/100

silence through bars 1-8, snare through bars 9-53, hi-hat through bars 54-63, snare through bars 64-65, hi-hat through bars 66-67 and snare through bars 68-69, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 62-67, 70-75 and 134-139, and 1 more place -- 15.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    63
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-x-x---x-|
Fearless -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33 and 36 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- S, I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- Q -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and Part L -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Through Part I and Part L -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-54 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 52-61 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fearless?

145 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 Fearless hard to play on drums?

49 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 4:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fearless?

15 fills to learn, played 42 times: bars 25, 27, 29, 31, 32, 33 and 36 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED