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Fight Or Run · Backfire!

Fight Or Run · Backfire!
EXERCISE 8 OF 17
Groove I
58 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 17 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART J
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
6 groovesAGJS2S5+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fight Or Run on drums

81 bars at 160 BPM -- fast, and 2:02 of it without a break -- on crash, snare and kick.

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
160 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:02
DIFFICULTY
19/100

snare through bars 1-57, kick and crashes through bars 58-63 and snare through bars 64-81.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 6 more places -- 58% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10               11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|----x---x---x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|x-x---x---------|
Fight Or Run -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

There are no fills to speak of: the part holds one beat the whole way through.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 16 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 -- A, H -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Bars 41-64 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fight Or Run?

160 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 Or Run hard to play on drums?

19 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 14 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 16 exercises over 4 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, snare and kick. Three pieces and no more -- this one is playable on almost anything with a kick, a snare and something to keep time on.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED