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Filth Friends Unite · I See Stars

Filth Friends Unite · I See Stars
EXERCISE 3 OF 63
Groove O -- Part O
16 / 102 BARS COVERED
0 / 63 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O, PART Z
PART A
CHORUS
PART O
PART T
PART O
PART Z
PART AG
PART A
OUTRO 2
14 groovesHOAFT+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 14
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 3
JOIN · 12
LINK · 2
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Filth Friends Unite on drums

102 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:24 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
102
LENGTH
3:24
DIFFICULTY
70/100

silence through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-12, snare through bars 13-58, toms through bars 59-62, hi-hat through bars 63-70 and snare through bars 71-79, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13, 15 and 19, and 5 more places -- 8.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |----------------x---------------|
BD |x-x---------x---x---x-x-x-------|
Filth Friends Unite -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 22, 24, 26, 32, 36 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 51 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 -- E, F -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 4-11 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 18-33 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part O -- 6 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Filth Friends Unite?

120 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Filth Friends Unite hard to play on drums?

70 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

102 bars, about 3:24 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 51 exercises over 15 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Filth Friends Unite?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 4, 22, 24, 26, 32, 36 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 102 BARS ANALYSED