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Fever · Bullet For My Valentine

EXERCISE 33 OF 53
Join Part H to Chorus 2 (bars 74-76)
140 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 53 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H, CHORUS 2
PART F
PART K
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
CHORUS 2
PART F
PART Y
PART AC
OUTRO
8 groovesNFYACK+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 10
LINK · 7
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fever on drums

169 bars at 176 BPM -- fast, and 3:50 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
176 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:50
DIFFICULTY
55/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-24, kick and crashes through bars 25-31, hi-hat through bars 32-48 and snare through bars 49-51, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 29 more places -- 19.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x-------x-|
Fever -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 16, 40, 48 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 43 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 -- F -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- N, AC -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part S2 and Part F -- 6 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  4. Through Part F -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part F and Part K -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 33-75 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 74-114 -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fever?

176 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Fever hard to play on drums?

55 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?

169 bars, about 3:50 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 43 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 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 Fever?

9 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 5, 6, 8, 16, 40, 48 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED