Fences · Destroy Boys

113 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:46 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 36% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-19, 21-23 and 25-27, and 8 more places -- 35.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 120 BPM
FENCES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 24, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 6 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 52 · LANDS ON BAR 53
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 86-88 · LANDS ON BAR 89 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

113 bars across 10 sections: 71 keep time, 12 are fills, 9 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 28-40.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART S
PART X
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesEZJS1A+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fences?

120 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 Fences hard to play on drums?

45 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 34 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

113 bars, about 3:46 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fences?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 20, 24, 52, 56, 60, 64 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 113 BARS ANALYSED
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