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Middle Fingers Up · Attila

EXERCISE 1 OF 39
Groove A -- Chorus
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0 / 39 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART H
PART K
PART Q
CHORUS 3
BREAK 4
OUTRO
9 groovesABKHQ+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Middle Fingers Up on drums

72 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:20 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
72
LENGTH
2:20
DIFFICULTY
58/100

snare through bars 1-18, hi-hat through bars 19-27, snare through bars 28-52, silence through bars 53-56, snare through bars 57-59 and toms through bars 60-61, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1, 3 and 5, and 10 more places -- 20% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x---xxxxx-x-xx-x|
Middle Fingers Up -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 15, 17, 18, 22, 32 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 31 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 -- A, B -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D (a two-bar phrase) -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Bars 7-20 -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus 2 and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Bars 25-35 -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Bars 35-53 -- 6 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Middle Fingers Up?

120 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 Middle Fingers Up hard to play on drums?

58 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

72 bars, about 2:20 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 31 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 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 Middle Fingers Up?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 6, 15, 17, 18, 22, 32 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 72 BARS ANALYSED