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fierce. · Gus G.

fierce. · Gus G.
EXERCISE 14 OF 69
Run B1 · Part B (bars 2-24)
116 / 178 BARS COVERED
0 / 69 PASSED · 23 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMBACAAJ+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 3
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play fierce. on drums

178 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 4:11 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
178
LENGTH
4:11
DIFFICULTY
72/100

hi-hat through bars 2-17, toms through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-29, ride through bars 30-35, snare through bars 36-44 and toms through bars 45-49, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 38-44, 50-56 and 58-64, and 7 more places -- 39% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
fierce. -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- M -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Bars 2-38 -- 8 exercises, about 36 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 25-41 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Bars 43-50 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part N and the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is fierce.?

170 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 fierce. hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

178 bars, about 4:11 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 fierce.?

17 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 9, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 178 BARS ANALYSED