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Fighter · Christina Aguilera

Fighter · Christina Aguilera
EXERCISE 1 OF 6
Groove D -- Chorus
0 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 6 PASSED · 73 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
BREAK
OUTRO
3 groovesDS1S3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fighter on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 3:54 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-62, silence through bars 63-70 and hi-hat through bars 71-94.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 27-62 and 71-73, and 1 more place -- 94.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |xxx---x-x-------|
Fighter -- 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 5 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 -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fighter?

95 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 Fighter hard to play on drums?

48 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 3 sittings, about 17 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED