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Fourty Days · Billy Brooks

Fourty Days · Billy Brooks
EXERCISE 16 OF 51
Groove L -- Part L
137 / 177 BARS COVERED
0 / 51 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART L, CHORUS 5, PART C
PART C
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART L
CHORUS 5
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesACEABI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 2
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fourty Days on drums

177 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 6:45 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
177
LENGTH
6:45
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 1-20, snare through bars 21-24, hi-hat through bars 25-36, snare through bars 37-40, hi-hat through bars 41-60 and snare through bars 61-64, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-3, 5-8 and 19-20, and 9 more places -- 54.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 75, 76, 83 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 41 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-25 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Bars 28-60 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 4 and Part L -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  6. Through Part L and Part M -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Through Part M and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fourty Days?

105 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 Fourty Days hard to play on drums?

54 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

177 bars, about 6:45 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 12 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, 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 Fourty Days?

9 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 28, 29, 30, 75, 76, 83 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 177 BARS ANALYSED