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Foolin' · Def Leppard

EXERCISE 18 OF 44
2-bar fill at bar 35 and 1 more
81 / 125 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART M
COUNT-IN
PART C
PART G
PART M
CHORUS
PART C
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 2
PART AA
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPMCGAH+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
JOIN · 8
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Foolin' on drums

125 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 4:25 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
113 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
125
LENGTH
4:25
DIFFICULTY
52/100

silence through bars 1-12, ride through bars 13-18, toms through bars 19-20, hi-hat through bars 21-28, ride through bars 29-36 and snare through bars 37-44, and 12 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 37-44, 75-81 and 107-112 -- 18.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    37               38
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|------x---x-----|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-------x-----|--x---x---x-----|
Foolin' -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 12, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- P, M -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. Through Part C and Part G -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through Part G and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  5. Bars 29-58 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 59-91 -- 4 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 90-107 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 106-118 -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Foolin'?

113 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 Foolin' hard to play on drums?

52 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

125 bars, about 4:25 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 9 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Foolin'?

8 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 12, 18, 19, 20, 26, 27 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 125 BARS ANALYSED