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Fences · Destroy Boys

EXERCISE 29 OF 43
Groove S -- Part S (a two-bar phrase)
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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
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fences on drums

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

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
113
LENGTH
3:46
DIFFICULTY
45/100

silence through bars 1-9, toms through bars 10-15, snare through bars 16-21, hi-hat through bars 22-24, snare through bars 25-34 and hi-hat through bars 35-53, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E, Z -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 38-54 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part A -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 79-89 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 81-104 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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