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Inuit · Foxing

Inuit · Foxing
EXERCISE 4 OF 71
Groove D -- Part D
56 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 71 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE PART D
PART D
PART H
PART D
PART S11
PART AI
PART AL
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
15 groovesIHS11AIAB+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 3
JOIN · 13
LINK · 6
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Inuit on drums

186 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 143 BPM, 4:06 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
143 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
4:06
DIFFICULTY
45/100

snare through bars 2-51, silence through bars 52-57, hi-hat through bars 58-63, silence through bars 64-65, snare through bars 66-75 and toms through bars 76-77, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 22-24, 26 and 28, and 35 more places -- 24% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    66
    1e+a2e+a3e+a
CC |x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---|
BD |x-----x-----|
Inuit -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 29 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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, H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 2-34 -- 9 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part H and Part D -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-101 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  6. Bars 58-68 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part S11 -- 9 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. Bars 89-96 -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 6 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Inuit?

143 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 Inuit hard to play on drums?

45 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 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 4:06 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 14 sittings, about 28 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 Inuit?

13 fills to learn, played 35 times: bars 5, 7, 9, 11, 12, 13 and 29 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED