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Fighting Gold · Coda

EXERCISE 29 OF 39
Join Part F to Part W (bars 53-55)
51 / 66 BARS COVERED
0 / 39 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F, PART W
PART S4
BREAK 4
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART W
PART AA
10 groovesJFS5WAA+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fighting Gold on drums

66 bars at 184 BPM -- fast, and 1:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
184 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
66
LENGTH
1:26
DIFFICULTY
54/100

snare through bars 1-5, kick and crashes through bars 6-9, silence through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-25, ride through bars 26-33 and hi-hat through bars 34-38, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18, 20 and 22, and 3 more places -- 10.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 24, 25, 33, 37, 39 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- F, J -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-9 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-38 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through Part F and Part W -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 53-61 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fighting Gold?

184 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 Fighting Gold hard to play on drums?

54 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 50 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

66 bars, about 1:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fighting Gold?

8 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 24, 25, 33, 37, 39 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 66 BARS ANALYSED