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Future Funland · Electric Chair Suicide

Future Funland · Electric Chair Suicide
EXERCISE 1 OF 34
Groove J -- Chorus
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0 / 34 PASSED · 21 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, CHORUS 3
PART B
BREAK 3
CHORUS
BREAK 4
CHORUS 2
PART O
BREAK 6
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
13 groovesJTS10S6O+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 4
JOIN · 8
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Future Funland on drums

147 bars at 170 BPM -- fast, and 3:26 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
170 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
147
LENGTH
3:26
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-12, silence through bars 13-16, hi-hat through bars 17-18, silence through bars 19-30 and hi-hat through bars 31-46, and 11 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-39, 65-71 and 108-114 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
CC |x-----------------------------------------------|
HH |------------o-----------o-----------o-----------|
SD |------x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----|
BD |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
Future Funland -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 64, 72, 107, 115 and 129.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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 -- J -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-19 -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 17-73 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 73-86 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-125 -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Future Funland?

170 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Future Funland hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

147 bars, about 3:26 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 10 sittings, about 26 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 Future Funland?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 32, 64, 72, 107, 115 and 129.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 147 BARS ANALYSED