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Foxholes · Lovejoy

EXERCISE 13 OF 36
Hold Groove I for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 47-54)
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0 / 36 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART C
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesICS7ES1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Foxholes on drums

145 bars at 164 BPM -- fast, and 3:32 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
164 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
145
LENGTH
3:32
DIFFICULTY
59/100

ride through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, snare through bars 5-6, silence through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-40 and toms through bars 41-48, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-39 and 88-102 -- 34.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    9
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-X-x-x-x-|
BD |x---------------|
Foxholes -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 48, 64, 72, 79, 80, 111 and 9 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- C, I -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 40-47 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 47-108 -- 7 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 25 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Foxholes?

164 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Foxholes hard to play on drums?

59 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 16 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

145 bars, about 3:32 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Foxholes?

9 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 48, 64, 72, 79, 80, 111 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 145 BARS ANALYSED