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Fools · Deep Purple

EXERCISE 19 OF 31
3-bar fill at bar 62
144 / 174 BARS COVERED
0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART O
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesDOBNAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fools on drums

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.

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
88 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
174
LENGTH
7:55
DIFFICULTY
48/100

ride through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-38, snare through bars 39-60, hi-hat through bars 61-66 and snare through bars 67-174.

The beat

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.

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

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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, O -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 85-161 -- 7 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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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