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frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr · Jay Mackintosh

EXERCISE 9 OF 52
Groove A -- Part A (a two-bar phrase)
33 / 97 BARS COVERED
0 / 52 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART A
PART A
CHORUS
PART S
PART X
PART AD
PART AF
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesIAFXANA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 2
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr on drums

95 bars of 4/4 at 145 BPM, about 2:35 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
145 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
95
LENGTH
2:35
DIFFICULTY
86/100

hi-hat through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, hi-hat through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, hi-hat through bars 9-26 and snare through bars 27-30, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 13-15, 21-23 and 78-80, and 1 more place -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13                                                               14
    1...............2...............3...............4............... 1...............2...............3...............4...............
CC |x-----------x-------------------x---------------x---------------|x----------x---------x------------------------------------------|
HH |------------------------x-------------------------------x-------|--------------------------------x-------x-----------------------|
SD |------------------------------------------------x---------------|---------------------x------------------x-------x--g-g----------|
BD |x-----------x---------------x---x---x-----------------------x---|x---------------x-------------------x-------x-----------x-------|
frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 9, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 26 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 -- I -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- X -- 4 exercises, about 35 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 9 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr?

145 BPM, in 4/4, 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 frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr hard to play on drums?

86 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 69 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

95 bars, about 2:35 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 17 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 frfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfrfr?

10 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 8, 9, 11, 12, 19, 20 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 95 BARS ANALYSED