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Front Toward Enemy · Incendiary

Front Toward Enemy · Incendiary
EXERCISE 6 OF 43
Groove J -- Part J (a two-bar phrase)
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0 / 43 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART J
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART E
PART Y
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
7 groovesCEJYAG+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 5
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Front Toward Enemy on drums

99 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
99
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
61/100

toms through bars 1-2, hi-hat through bars 3-16, toms through bars 17-31, snare through bars 32-35, hi-hat through bars 36-45 and ride through bars 46-47, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 3, 5 and 11, and 7 more places -- 29.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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, E -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 3-27 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-26 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part J and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through Part J and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part Y -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 55-90 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Front Toward Enemy?

130 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 Front Toward Enemy hard to play on drums?

61 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 35 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

99 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 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 Front Toward Enemy?

9 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 4, 12, 16, 17, 18, 19 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 99 BARS ANALYSED