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Flesh For Fantasy · Billy Idol

EXERCISE 1 OF 32
Groove C -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
PART J
PART L
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesCEJLS1+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Flesh For Fantasy on drums

107 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 4:30 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, 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
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
4:30
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-67, kick and crashes through bars 68-69, snare through bars 70-77, kick and crashes through bars 78-82 and hi-hat through bars 83-107.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 12-14, 16-18 and 20-22, and 2 more places -- 21.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x---x---x---x---|
HF |--g---g---g---g-|
Flesh For Fantasy -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 57, 83 and 84.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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, J -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through Part E -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 31-40 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 40-68 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part J and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Bars 77-85 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Flesh For Fantasy?

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 Flesh For Fantasy 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 32 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 4:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Flesh For Fantasy?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 31, 57, 83 and 84.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED