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Little Fury Things · Dinosaur Jr.

EXERCISE 15 OF 45
Join Part B to Chorus (bars 14-16)
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0 / 45 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, CHORUS
PART B
CHORUS
PART I
PART C
OUTRO 2
5 groovesEBCIQFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 1
JOIN · 5
LINK · 3
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Little Fury Things on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at 133 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
133 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
2:55
DIFFICULTY
66/100

toms through bar 1, hi-hat through bars 2-61, snare through bars 62-64 and hi-hat through bars 65-97.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 9 more places -- 36.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    18               19
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------------x-|----------------|
HH |----o-o-o-o-o---|o-o-o-o-o-o-o---|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
T2 |----------------|--------------x-|
FT |----------------|---------------x|
BD |x-------x-x---x-|x-----x---------|
Little Fury Things -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 17, 33, 41, 49, 51 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part C -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 30-48 -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part I and Part C -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  8. Through Part C and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Little Fury Things?

133 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 Little Fury Things hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 39 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 2:55 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Little Fury Things?

11 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 1, 17, 33, 41, 49, 51 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED