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Fortune Teller · Stray From The Path

EXERCISE 7 OF 35
Join Part A to Part B (bars 3-5)
66 / 92 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A, PART B
PART A
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesESBNAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 5
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fortune Teller on drums

92 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 2:38 of playing, on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
92
LENGTH
2:38
DIFFICULTY
64/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-4, snare through bars 5-12, ride through bars 13-28, snare through bars 29-42, toms through bars 43-44 and ride through bars 45-60, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 65-69, 71-75 and 77-91 -- 27.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    65               66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---x-------x---|--x---x---x-----|
Fortune Teller -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 36, 43 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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 -- S, B -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-29 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 25-45 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 41-60 -- 5 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  6. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Fortune Teller?

140 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 Fortune Teller hard to play on drums?

64 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 26 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

92 bars, about 2:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 8 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Fortune Teller?

7 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 12, 16, 24, 28, 36, 43 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 92 BARS ANALYSED