ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Is Fuair an Chroí on drums

83 bars, 4:47, at 69 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, hi-hat, snare, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 69 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 83
LENGTH: 4:47
DIFFICULTY: 80/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-47, snare through bars 48-54, hi-hat through bars 55-65, snare through bars 66-67 and hi-hat through bars 68-83.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 12-15, 24-46 and 68-74, and 1 more place -- 46.9% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

Is Fuair an Chroí -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 11 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 23 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 -- G -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
Through Part D and the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part D -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes. Open above.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
Through the Chorus 2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part J and the Outro -- 3 exercises, about 14 minutes.
and 2 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Is Fuair an Chroí?

69 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Is Fuair an Chroí hard to play on drums?

80 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 75 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

83 bars, about 4:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 23 exercises over 10 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Is Fuair an Chroí?

2 fills to learn, played 17 times: bars 47, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 and 11 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 83 BARS ANALYSED