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My Greatest Fear · Benson Boone

EXERCISE 19 OF 33
Join Part E to Chorus (bars 28-30)
59 / 86 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, CHORUS
PART B
PART E
CHORUS
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART M
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesIOEBR+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 3
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play My Greatest Fear on drums

86 bars of 4/4 at 150 BPM, about 2:18 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
150 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
86
LENGTH
2:18
DIFFICULTY
55/100

silence through bars 1-5, hi-hat through bars 6-12, toms through bars 13-25, hi-hat through bars 26-41, snare through bars 42-49 and hi-hat through bars 50-56, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30-32, 35-40 and 48, and 1 more place -- 21% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
HH |x--x--x--x--x--x--x--x--|
SD |------x-----------x-----|
BD |x--------------x--------|
My Greatest Fear -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 25, 70, 71, 78 and 79.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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, O -- 2 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through Part E -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-43 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 43-65 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  8. Bars 64-81 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is My Greatest Fear?

150 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 My Greatest Fear hard to play on drums?

55 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 40 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

86 bars, about 2:18 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 9 sittings, about 26 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 My Greatest Fear?

2 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 24, 25, 70, 71, 78 and 79.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 86 BARS ANALYSED