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Fracaso · Candelabro

Fracaso · Candelabro
EXERCISE 4 OF 54
Groove E -- Part E
22 / 143 BARS COVERED
0 / 54 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E
PART E
PART G
PART L
BREAK 11
PART S19
PART AC
OUTRO
BREAK 14
22 groovesALACS16ES24+17Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 2
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fracaso on drums

143 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 110 BPM, 5:33 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
110 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
143
LENGTH
5:33
DIFFICULTY
54/100

silence through bars 1-7, hi-hat through bars 8-15, ride through bars 16-23, snare through bars 24-32, kick and crashes through bars 33-34 and toms through bars 35-40, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 95-105 and 113 -- 12.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    95                                               96
    1...............2...............3............... 1...............2...............3...............
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|------------------------------------------------|
RD |----------------x---------------x---------------|x---------------x---------------x---------------|
SD |------------------------------------------------|x-----------------------------------------------|
BD |x-----------------------------------------------|----------------------------------------x-------|
Fracaso -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 15, 33, 34, 83, 84, 85 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 47 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 -- AC, AL -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 9-28 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through the Break 2 and Part L -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 33-51 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 50-54 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  7. Bars 57-78 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 78-88 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fracaso?

110 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Fracaso hard to play on drums?

54 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 27 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

143 bars, about 5:33 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Fracaso?

6 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 15, 33, 34, 83, 84, 85 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 143 BARS ANALYSED