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Foggy Weather Friend · Foghorn

EXERCISE 16 OF 29
Groove I -- Part I
49 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART I
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Foggy Weather Friend on drums

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

50 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:03
DIFFICULTY
50/100

snare through bars 1-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40, toms through bars 41-49, silence through bars 50-56 and snare through bars 57-72.

The beat

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.

    1                2
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-x---------x-x-|--x-x-----x-x---|
Foggy Weather Friend -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- A, G -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 15-25 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Bars 17-34 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part I -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part I -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Bars 39-49 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 16 minutes.
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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