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Protest The Hero - Fishhook · Ben Jon Davis - Protest The Hero

Protest The Hero - Fishhook · Ben Jon Davis - Protest The Hero
EXERCISE 3 OF 117
Groove AF -- Part AF
38 / 239 BARS COVERED
0 / 117 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART AF
PART B
CHORUS
PART AF
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART AM
PART AF
PART BE
PART S17
PART AF
15 groovesHBAFAMS17+10Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 18
FILL · 30
LAND · 30
RUN · 3
JOIN · 17
LINK · 7
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Protest The Hero - Fishhook on drums

239 bars at 190 BPM -- fast, and 5:02 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
190 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
239
LENGTH
5:02
DIFFICULTY
56/100

hi-hat through bars 1-31, toms through bars 32-40, hi-hat through bars 41-48, snare through bars 49-64, hi-hat through bars 65-76 and snare through bars 77-80, and 19 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 2-6, 10-12 and 14, and 5 more places -- 9.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    2                3
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |----------------|------x---------|
HH |--o---o---o---o-|--o-------o---o-|
SD |--x---x---x---x-|--x---x---x---x-|
BD |-x--x---x---x---|xx--xx----------|
Protest The Hero - Fishhook -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

30 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 80 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 86 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 -- B, H -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AF -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
  3. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  7. Bars 24-95 -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 32-50 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 17 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Protest The Hero - Fishhook?

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

Is Protest The Hero - Fishhook hard to play on drums?

56 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

239 bars, about 5:02 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 86 exercises over 25 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 Protest The Hero - Fishhook?

30 fills to learn, played 86 times: bars 15, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24 and 80 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 239 BARS ANALYSED