Fight Song · Appleseed Cast

65 bars, 3:43, at 70 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Alternative / IndieRockUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
70 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
65
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 41% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-27 and 37-43 -- 41.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 70 BPM
FIGHT SONG · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 48 and 64.

LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 28 · LANDS ON BAR 29
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 48 · LANDS ON BAR 49
LOOP · 70 BPM
BAR 64 · LANDS ON BAR 65
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

65 bars across 5 sections: 55 keep time, 3 are fills, 1 is a stop and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-27.

PART A
CHORUS
PART D
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
3 groovesBDAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fight Song?

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

Is Fight Song hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

65 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 15 exercises over 5 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fight Song?

3 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 28, 48 and 64.

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