Fools · Deep Purple

174 bars of 4/4 at a walking 88 BPM, 7:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 29% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 37, 39-41 and 43, and 16 more places -- 28.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

LOOP · 88 BPM
FOOLS · BAR 37
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 42, 44, 46 and 15 more.

LOOP · 88 BPM
BARS 35-36 · LANDS ON BAR 37 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 38 · LANDS ON BAR 39 · PLAYED 9 TIMES
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45
LOOP · 88 BPM
BAR 49 · LANDS ON BAR 50 · PLAYED 3 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

174 bars across 6 sections: 147 keep time and 21 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 90-136.

PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDOBNAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Fools?

88 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 Fools 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

174 bars, about 7:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 6 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fools?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 35, 36, 38, 42, 44, 46 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 174 BARS ANALYSED
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