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Futureproof · Nothing But Thieves

EXERCISE 10 OF 33
Join Chorus to Part G (bars 7-9)
45 / 72 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, PART G
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART I
PART S6
PART N
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
6 groovesAGINS6+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Futureproof on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 3:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
86 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
3:21
DIFFICULTY
60/100

hi-hat through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-7, hi-hat through bars 8-45, silence through bars 46-52 and hi-hat through bars 53-72.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 14, 17 and 19, and 9 more places -- 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.

    14
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o-x-x-o-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x--x--x----x---x|
Futureproof -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 5 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 27 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, G -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part G and the Chorus 2 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 30-45 -- 6 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through Part N -- 2 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  8. Bars 59-65 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Futureproof?

86 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 Futureproof hard to play on drums?

60 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 3:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Futureproof?

5 fills to learn, played 11 times: bars 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 12 and 5 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED