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Gfc · Albert Hammond Jr

Gfc · Albert Hammond Jr
EXERCISE 8 OF 35
Groove B -- Chorus (a two-bar phrase)
43 / 89 BARS COVERED
0 / 35 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, CHORUS 2, OUTRO 2
CHORUS
PART I
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART I
PART K
PART S
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesBKISS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 5
LINK · 5
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gfc on drums

89 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 100 BPM, 3:01 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
3:01
DIFFICULTY
58/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-37, kick and crashes through bars 38-40, hi-hat through bars 41-59, ride through bars 60-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-71, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-26, 28-30 and 52-54, and 5 more places -- 26.7% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    25
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |o--o--o--o--|
SD |---x-x---x--|
BD |x-------x---|
Gfc -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 19 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 -- K -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 20-44 -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Bars 40-59 -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.
  6. Through Part K and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part S and the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gfc?

100 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Gfc hard to play on drums?

58 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how much of it falls off the beat. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 3:01 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 27 exercises over 9 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Gfc?

7 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED