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New Fang · Them Crooked Vultures

EXERCISE 6 OF 48
Groove W
102 / 180 BARS COVERED
0 / 48 PASSED · 12 BARS LIT · IN THE OUTRO
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART I
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesDIYAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 11
LAND · 11
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play New Fang on drums

180 bars at 187 BPM -- fast, and 3:47 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
187 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
180
LENGTH
3:47
DIFFICULTY
71/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, ride through bars 9-40, toms through bars 41-42, hi-hat through bars 43-48, toms through bars 49-50 and hi-hat through bars 51-54, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 9-23, 25-40 and 55-61, and 4 more places -- 41.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    9                        10
    1.....2.....3.....4..... 1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----------------------|------------------------|
RD |------x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |------------x--------x--|---x--------x--------x--|
BD |x-----x-----x-----x-----|x-----x-----x-----x-----|
New Fang -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 24, 53, 54, 62, 78 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- D, A -- 5 exercises, about 37 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- W -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Bars 45-63 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  7. Bars 108-174 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Through Part I and the Outro -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is New Fang?

187 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. At that speed the thirty-second notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is New Fang hard to play on drums?

71 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 45 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

180 bars, about 3:47 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 12 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 New Fang?

11 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 8, 24, 53, 54, 62, 78 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 180 BARS ANALYSED