Fool Fool · Axel Rudi Pell

170 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:14 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockMetal120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-15, 42-48 and 50-56, and 10 more places -- 50.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 130 BPM
FOOL FOOL · BAR 9
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 33, 40, 41, 49, 66, 73 and 13 more.

LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 33 · LANDS ON BAR 34
LOOP · 130 BPM
BARS 40-41 · LANDS ON BAR 42 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50
LOOP · 130 BPM
BAR 66 · LANDS ON BAR 67

8 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

170 bars across 12 sections: 127 keep time, 19 are fills, 3 are stops and 9 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 112-126.

CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
6 groovesBERS1AB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fool Fool?

130 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 Fool Fool hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 5:14 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.

How many fills are in Fool Fool?

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 33, 40, 41, 49, 66, 73 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED
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