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Fields of Athenry V2 · Dropkick Murphys

EXERCISE 1 OF 43
Groove F -- Chorus
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PART S2
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART N
CHORUS 3
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesFS10NS2L+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fields of Athenry V2 on drums

153 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 4:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
153
LENGTH
4:14
DIFFICULTY
51/100

toms through bars 3-7, silence through bars 8-24, hi-hat through bars 25-84, snare through bars 85-86, hi-hat through bars 87-117 and silence through bars 118-128, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25-31, 33-39 and 41-43, and 8 more places -- 52.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Fields of Athenry V2 -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 24, 40 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, N -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  2. Bars 3-104 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 51-87 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 84-134 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fields of Athenry V2?

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 Fields of Athenry V2 hard to play on drums?

51 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

153 bars, about 4:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 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 Fields of Athenry V2?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 24, 40 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 153 BARS ANALYSED