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fight · Alethral

fight · Alethral
EXERCISE 20 OF 52
Groove M -- Part M
148 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 18 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D, PART M
PART A
CHORUS
PART D
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART D
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART D
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesHMDAF+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 8
LINK · 8
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play fight on drums

200 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 4:27 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-24, snare through bars 25-40, hi-hat through bars 41-64, snare through bars 65-80, hi-hat through bars 81-112 and snare through bars 113-128, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9, 11 and 13, and 39 more places -- 26% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 22 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- D, H -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part D -- 8 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  5. Bars 54-153 -- 7 exercises, about 33 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 58-97 -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Bars 96-109 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 101-116 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is fight?

180 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 fight hard to play on drums?

53 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 36 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 29 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 fight?

9 fills to learn, played 28 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 28, 32, 36 and 22 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED