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I Fought The Law · Bobby Fuller Four

I Fought The Law · Bobby Fuller Four
EXERCISE 4 OF 7
Fill at bar 83
79 / 83 BARS COVERED
0 / 7 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesDS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 2
FILL · 1
LAND · 1
RUN · 1
SECTION · 1
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play I Fought The Law on drums

83 bars of 4/4 at 144 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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
144 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
83
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
54/100

toms through bars 2-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 5-13, 15-52 and 54-82 -- 92.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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

The fills

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 83.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 5 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is I Fought The Law?

144 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 I Fought The Law 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 5 exercises over 2 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 I Fought The Law?

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 83.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED