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Firth Of Fifth · Genesis

EXERCISE 1 OF 107
Groove X -- Part X
0 / 167 BARS COVERED
0 / 107 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE PART X, OUTRO 2
PART N
PART X
PART AF
CHORUS
PART BC
PART BN
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
16 groovesAOXBNAFBC+11Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 19
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 5
JOIN · 13
LINK · 5
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Firth Of Fifth on drums

167 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 7:05 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
167
LENGTH
7:05
DIFFICULTY
71/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-16, ride through bars 17-26, hi-hat through bars 27-36, kick and crashes through bars 37-39 and ride through bars 40-42, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 34-35, 154 and 156-158, and 1 more place -- 5.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    157
    1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
HH |o-------o---------------o-------o-------o---------------o-------|
SD |----------------x-------------------------------x---------------|
BD |x-------------------------------x-------------------------------|
Firth Of Fifth -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 33, 64 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 79 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 -- X -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- BN -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 1 exercise, about 13 minutes.
  5. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Through Part C and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part C and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  8. Through Part N -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 19 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Firth Of Fifth?

88 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 Firth Of Fifth hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

167 bars, about 7:05 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 79 exercises over 27 sittings, about 25 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 Firth Of Fifth?

27 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 8, 12, 16, 24, 33, 64 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 167 BARS ANALYSED