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Folie à Deux · STOMACH BOOK

EXERCISE 32 OF 43
Run M1 · Part M (bars 50-58)
110 / 130 BARS COVERED
0 / 43 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
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
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Folie à Deux on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
180 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
130
LENGTH
2:53
DIFFICULTY
45/100

hi-hat through bars 1-12, snare through bars 13-24, ride through bars 25-28, hi-hat through bars 29-40, snare through bars 41-66 and silence through bars 67-74, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-x-----x---|
BD |x---------x-----|
Folie à Deux -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- D, M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 1-22 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 19-26 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 23-41 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part M -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Bars 50-87 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
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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