Only A Fool · The Black Crowes

80 bars of 4/4 at a walking 92 BPM, 3:29 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

RockJazz / Blues90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
44/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 50% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-20, 22 and 24, and 15 more places -- 50% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 92 BPM
ONLY A FOOL · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 45, 47, 49 and 4 more.

LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 92 BPM
BAR 57 · LANDS ON BAR 58
LOOP · 92 BPM
BARS 68-69 · LANDS ON BAR 70 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

1 more fill is written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

80 bars across 4 sections: 61 keep time, 10 are fills, 1 is a stop and 4 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 26-44.

COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEJHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Only A Fool?

92 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 Only A Fool hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

80 bars, about 3:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 17 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Only A Fool?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 21, 23, 25, 45, 47, 49 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 80 BARS ANALYSED
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