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Good Grief · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 1 OF 16
Groove B -- Outro
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OUTRO
2 groovesBS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 1
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Good Grief on drums

189 bars at 193 BPM -- fast, and 3:54 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
193 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
189
LENGTH
3:54
DIFFICULTY
54/100

hi-hat through bars 2-49, snare through bars 50-58, hi-hat through bars 59-104, snare through bars 105-133, hi-hat through bars 134-179 and snare through bars 180-189.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2, 4-18 and 20-48, and 10 more places -- 87.2% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    5
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x-----x-x-----|
Good Grief -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 19, 49, 57, 58, 74 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 9 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 -- B -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Good Grief?

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

Is Good Grief hard to play on drums?

54 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 44 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

189 bars, about 3:54 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 9 exercises over 3 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Good Grief?

6 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 3, 19, 49, 57, 58, 74 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 189 BARS ANALYSED