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Foxglove · Boston Manor

Foxglove · Boston Manor
EXERCISE 4 OF 25
Groove F -- Verse
16 / 94 BARS COVERED
0 / 25 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE VERSE
PART A
PART B
PART S4
VERSE
PART S7
BREAK 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesMS7IS4A+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Foxglove on drums

94 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:37 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
94
LENGTH
3:37
DIFFICULTY
47/100

snare through bars 1-8, hi-hat through bars 9-17, snare through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-38, snare through bars 39-54 and silence through bars 55-62, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-8 -- 9.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 46, 70 and 86.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 22 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, B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 15-54 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 53-71 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Foxglove?

104 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 Foxglove hard to play on drums?

47 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 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

94 bars, about 3:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 22 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Foxglove?

2 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 25, 46, 70 and 86.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 94 BARS ANALYSED