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Fundamentally Loathsome · Marilyn Manson

EXERCISE 14 OF 15
Join Outro to Break (bars 45-47)
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0 / 15 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO, BREAK
CHORUS
OUTRO
BREAK
3 groovesAS3CFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Fundamentally Loathsome on drums

68 bars of 6/4 -- not four -- at 87 BPM, 4:41 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
87 BPM
TIME
6/4
BARS
68
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
23/100

snare through bars 1-32, ride through bars 33-46 and silence through bars 47-68.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-31 -- 67.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a5e+a6e+a
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x---------x-x-----------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
Fundamentally Loathsome -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 36, 39, 40 and 44.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 11 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 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 15 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is Fundamentally Loathsome?

87 BPM, in 6/4, 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 Fundamentally Loathsome hard to play on drums?

23 out of 100: straightforward, and the one thing to watch is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 8 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

68 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 11 exercises over 3 sittings, about 24 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 Fundamentally Loathsome?

3 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 32, 36, 39, 40 and 44.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 68 BARS ANALYSED