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Fool Fool · Axel Rudi Pell

EXERCISE 36 OF 46
Join Chorus 4 to Part S10 (bars 134-136)
150 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 46 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 4, PART S10
CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS 2
PART E
CHORUS 3
PART E
CHORUS 4
PART S10
OUTRO
6 groovesBERS1AB+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fool Fool on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
5:14
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-15, toms through bars 16-17, hi-hat through bars 18-108, toms through bars 109-110 and hi-hat through bars 111-136, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 33, 40, 41, 49, 66, 73 and 13 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 -- B, E -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and Part E -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 58-91 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 93-104 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 102-128 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Bars 134-163 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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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