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Fertile Crescent · Bad Religion

EXERCISE 16 OF 44
Join Part E to Part H (bars 15-17)
63 / 80 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, PART H
PART A
PART E
PART H
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesIGEHA+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fertile Crescent on drums

80 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:10 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
2:10
DIFFICULTY
80/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-22, ride through bars 23-35, hi-hat through bars 36-45 and ride through bars 46-80.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23-25, 27-29 and 32, and 8 more places -- 35% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|
BD |x--x-x--x--x-x--|
Fertile Crescent -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 12, 21, 22 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- I -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part H and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fertile Crescent?

144 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 Fertile Crescent hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 2:10 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Fertile Crescent?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 12, 21, 22 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED