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Fit And Fortified · Fungal Forge

EXERCISE 25 OF 29
Join Outro to Outro 2 (bars 91-93)
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0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, OUTRO 2
PART A
PART B
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCABMFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fit And Fortified on drums

98 bars at 157 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
157 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
98
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
96/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-17 and 20-21, and 17 more places -- 52% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |gXo-x-oggXo-x-og|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x-x--x--x-|
Fit And Fortified -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 22, 40, 48, 52, 61 and 2 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-36 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Fit And Fortified?

157 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 Fit And Fortified hard to play on drums?

96 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 90 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

98 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Fit And Fortified?

7 fills to learn, played 8 times: bars 18, 22, 40, 48, 52, 61 and 2 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 98 BARS ANALYSED