ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Innocence Faded on drums

165 bars of 4/4 at 113 BPM, about 5:52 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO: 113 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 165
LENGTH: 5:52
DIFFICULTY: 72/100

snare through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-85, ride through bars 86-93, hi-hat through bars 94-109, ride through bars 110-117 and hi-hat through bars 118-156, and 2 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-26 and 28-31 -- 11.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    12                               13
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------x-------x-------o---xxxx|x-------x-x-----x-------o-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|------------x-----------x-------|
BD |x---x---------------------------|x---x-x-------------x-----------|
HF |--------------------------------|----------------------------x---|

Innocence Faded -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 39 and 30 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 65 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H, C -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
The grooves the song is built on -- V -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
Through the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 33 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
Through Part H -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part H and Part L -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
Through Part L and Part R -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
Through Part R and Part V -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
and 12 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Innocence Faded?

113 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Innocence Faded hard to play on drums?

72 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 51 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

165 bars, about 5:52 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 65 exercises over 20 sittings, about 28 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 Innocence Faded?

15 fills to learn, played 36 times: bars 1, 5, 9, 10, 11, 39 and 30 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 165 BARS ANALYSED