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Fragile Doll · Liam Sache

EXERCISE 4 OF 56
Groove H -- Part H
46 / 134 BARS COVERED
0 / 56 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
CHORUS
PART F
PART H
PART H
PART Q
PART F
PART H
PART X
PART AI
11 groovesAXFHI+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 14
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fragile Doll on drums

134 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 57 BPM, 9:34 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
57 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
134
LENGTH
9:34
DIFFICULTY
69/100

snare through bars 1-34, ride through bars 35-36, hi-hat through bars 37-44, ride through bars 45-68, hi-hat through bars 69-84 and kick and crashes through bars 85-86, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31 and 33 -- 24.2% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1.......2.......3.......
SD |x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-x-g-|
Fragile Doll -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 44, 50, 52, 58, 60, 68 and 24 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 -- A -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part F and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  5. Through Part H and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 49-61 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part O -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fragile Doll?

57 BPM, in 3/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Fragile Doll hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 23 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

134 bars, about 9:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 47 exercises over 15 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Fragile Doll?

8 fills to learn, played 30 times: bars 44, 50, 52, 58, 60, 68 and 24 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 134 BARS ANALYSED