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Footprints · Warning
EXERCISE 5 OF 29
Groove B -- Part B
73 / 107 BARS COVERED
0 / 29 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT
PART B
CHORUS
PART G
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEGBDFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Footprints on drums

107 bars, 7:08, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick and nothing else.

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

TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
107
LENGTH
7:08
DIFFICULTY
55/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, ride through bars 17-24, hi-hat through bars 25-28, ride through bars 29-36, toms through bars 37-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-68, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 17-24, 29-36 and 69-71, and 6 more places -- 38.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    17
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------x-----------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----------x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x-----------------------x-----------|
BD |x-----------------x--------x--x-----------------|
Footprints -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 52, 53, 55, 61, 63 and 1 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 -- E, G -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-56 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-62 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Footprints?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Footprints hard to play on drums?

55 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 46 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

107 bars, about 7:08 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 7 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Footprints?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 28, 52, 53, 55, 61, 63 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 107 BARS ANALYSED