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Fortnite (rock version) · Taylor Swift

EXERCISE 37 OF 52
Join Chorus 2 to Part S (bars 53-55)
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0 / 52 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2, PART S
PART C
PART F
CHORUS
PART F
PART J
CHORUS 2
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHFUCS+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fortnite (rock version) on drums

89 bars of 4/4 at a walking 96 BPM, 3:43 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
96 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:43
DIFFICULTY
49/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-4, hi-hat through bars 5-9, toms through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-33, toms through bars 34-41 and hi-hat through bars 42-56, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 45-48 and 54, and 6 more places -- 18.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Fortnite (rock version) -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 41, 49, 53 and 7 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 42 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 -- J, H -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 2-42 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 9-26 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  5. Bars 22-33 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 32-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Through Part S -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-69 -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fortnite (rock version)?

96 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 Fortnite (rock version) hard to play on drums?

49 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?

89 bars, about 3:43 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 42 exercises over 10 sittings, about 28 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Fortnite (rock version)?

9 fills to learn, played 13 times: bars 17, 21, 25, 41, 49, 53 and 7 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED