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Fibers · Delta Nine

Fibers · Delta Nine
EXERCISE 1 OF 45
Groove G -- Part G
0 / 129 BARS COVERED
0 / 45 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G, CHORUS, OUTRO
PART G
CHORUS
PART AG
PART AJ
PART AN
PART AT
OUTRO
9 groovesNGAGANAT+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fibers on drums

109 bars, 6:19, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
6:19
DIFFICULTY
64/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-5, snare through bars 6-13, ride through bars 14-17, hi-hat through bars 18-32 and snare through bars 33-41, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 11-12 and 39-40, and 3 more places -- 9.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    7
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |------x-----x-------x-------x-x-|
BD |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
Fibers -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 10, 32, 33 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AN -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part G -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through Part G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part G and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fibers?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fibers hard to play on drums?

64 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 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 6:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 14 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 Fibers?

7 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 5, 6, 9, 10, 32, 33 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED