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Fellows of the Hammer · Wind Rose

EXERCISE 1 OF 54
Groove N -- Chorus 2
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PART F
PART L
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART S
PART F
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S
BREAK
PART L
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesNSLFO+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fellows of the Hammer on drums

155 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 5:21 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
155
LENGTH
5:21
DIFFICULTY
74/100

silence through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-6, hi-hat through bars 7-14, ride through bars 15-22, hi-hat through bars 23-34 and ride through bars 35-38, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 31-34, 39-41 and 43-45, and 6 more places -- 21.4% 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
CC |x---------------|
HH |--o-o-o-o-o-o-o-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---xxx-x---xx|
Fellows of the Hammer -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 30 and 24 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- N -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F -- 5 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part F -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 16-34 -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fellows of the Hammer?

115 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 Fellows of the Hammer hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 55 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

155 bars, about 5:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 13 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Fellows of the Hammer?

12 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 30 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 155 BARS ANALYSED