Foggy Weather Friend · Foghorn

72 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
50/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 1-7, 9-16 and 21-23, and 1 more place -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 140 BPM
FOGGY WEATHER FRIEND · BARS 1-2
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 72.

LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 24 · LANDS ON BAR 25
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 140 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

72 bars across 8 sections: 46 keep time, 6 are fills, 5 are stops and 6 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-33.

CHORUS
PART D
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAGMS7I+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Foggy Weather Friend?

140 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 Foggy Weather Friend hard to play on drums?

50 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 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 7 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Foggy Weather Friend?

5 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 20, 24, 36, 38, 40 and 72.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED
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