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Fundamental Process · Beyond Creation

EXERCISE 13 OF 116
Groove Q
218 / 467 BARS COVERED
0 / 116 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART N
PART AK
CHORUS 3
PART N
CHORUS 5
OUTRO
10 groovesSAKNYAL+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 27
LAND · 27
RUN · 1
JOIN · 17
LINK · 16
SECTION · 9
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fundamental Process on drums

467 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 140 BPM, 10:12 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
467
LENGTH
10:12
DIFFICULTY
72/100

silence through bars 1-20, ride through bars 21-26, toms through bars 27-32, ride through bars 33-44, hi-hat through bars 45-47 and toms through bars 48-57, and 59 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 45-47, 53 and 118, and 37 more places -- 19.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    125
    1.....2.....3.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----|
BD |xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-xx-|
Fundamental Process -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

27 fills to learn, played 114 times: bars 28, 29, 32, 40, 48, 49 and 108 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 88 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 -- S -- 1 exercise, about 14 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AK -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Bars 17-82 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Through Part N -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  6. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  7. Through Part N and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part T -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  9. and 20 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Fundamental Process?

140 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Fundamental Process hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

467 bars, about 10:12 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 88 exercises over 28 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 Fundamental Process?

27 fills to learn, played 114 times: bars 28, 29, 32, 40, 48, 49 and 108 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 467 BARS ANALYSED