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Only A Fool · The Black Crowes

EXERCISE 1 OF 23
Groove E -- Chorus
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COUNT-IN
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
4 groovesEJHS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 1
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Only A Fool on drums

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.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
92 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
80
LENGTH
3:29
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-4 and hi-hat through bars 5-80.

The beat

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.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Only A Fool -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 17 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, H -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and the Outro -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 23 minutes.
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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