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Forty Hour Suit · train breaks down

EXERCISE 29 OF 49
9-bar fill at bar 72
64 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 9 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
COUNT-IN
PART B
CHORUS
PART J
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
9 groovesDJAJAHB+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Forty Hour Suit on drums

109 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 3:19 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:19
DIFFICULTY
76/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-71, snare through bars 72-82, silence through bars 83-84, hi-hat through bars 85-103 and snare through bars 104-109.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 29-43, 45-57 and 59 -- 29% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    29               30
    1.......2....... 1.......2.......
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x---x---x---|x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--x-----x-----xx|
BD |x-----x-----x---|----x-----x-----|
Forty Hour Suit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 19, 25, 28, 44, 60 and 18 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 37 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 -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part J -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 25-61 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and the Chorus 2 -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Break -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through Part AC -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Forty Hour Suit?

100 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Forty Hour Suit hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 67 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:19 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 37 exercises over 13 sittings, about 26 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 Forty Hour Suit?

11 fills to learn, played 24 times: bars 16, 19, 25, 28, 44, 60 and 18 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED