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Last Faith · JILUKA

Last Faith · JILUKA
EXERCISE 9 OF 68
Fill at bar 10 (a small one)
40 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 68 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART J
PART J
CHORUS
PART S10
CHORUS 2
PART AK
PART S13
CHORUS 3
14 groovesWS13PAKS10+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 1
JOIN · 14
LINK · 1
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Last Faith on drums

121 bars of 4/4 at a walking 107 BPM, 4:28 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
107 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
4:28
DIFFICULTY
80/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-6, snare through bars 7-9, hi-hat through bars 10-13, snare through bars 14-16 and kick and crashes through bars 17-20, and 14 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 33-34, 37-39 and 65-66, and 3 more places -- 12.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    33
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |------------------------------x-|
HH |----o---o---o---o---o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |--xx----x-x---x---x-----x-x---x-|
Last Faith -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 35 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 52 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 -- W -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- P -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  4. Through Part S2 and Part J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part J -- 4 exercises, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 9-45 -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 15-25 -- 8 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 23-31 -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 10 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Last Faith?

107 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 Last Faith 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?

121 bars, about 4:28 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 52 exercises over 18 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 Last Faith?

15 fills to learn, played 41 times: bars 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 and 35 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED