Folie à Deux · STOMACH BOOK

130 bars at 180 BPM -- fast, and 2:53 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

150 BPM and up
TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
45/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 54% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-19, 29-31 and 33-35, and 15 more places -- 54.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 180 BPM
FOLIE À DEUX · BAR 13
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 14 more.

LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 12 · LANDS ON BAR 13 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 20 · LANDS ON BAR 21 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 32 · LANDS ON BAR 33 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 180 BPM
BAR 36 · LANDS ON BAR 37

5 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

130 bars across 11 sections: 88 keep time, 20 are fills, 8 are stops and 8 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 1-11.

PART A
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART M
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
7 groovesDAMS8F+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Folie à Deux?

180 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 Folie à Deux hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

130 bars, about 2:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 8 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Folie à Deux?

9 fills to learn, played 20 times: bars 12, 20, 28, 32, 36, 40 and 14 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 130 BARS ANALYSED
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