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Question Everything · Five Finger Death Punch

EXERCISE 4 OF 73
Groove D -- Chorus
27 / 164 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT
CHORUS
PART K
PART S
CHORUS 2
PART W
PART S
CHORUS 3
PART S
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDPSKW+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 15
LAND · 15
RUN · 2
JOIN · 13
LINK · 8
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Question Everything on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 130 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
130 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
61/100

silence through bars 1-4, toms through bars 5-9, snare through bars 10-16, toms through bars 17-18, hi-hat through bars 19-55 and kick and crashes through bars 56-57, and 10 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 84-86, and 5 more places -- 14.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    41
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x--x----x---|
BD |x---x---x-x-x-xx|
Question Everything -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 13, 17, 18, 38, 39, 44 and 28 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 57 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 -- P -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- S -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Break -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus and Part K -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part K and Part P -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  8. Through Part P and Part S -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Question Everything?

130 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 Question Everything hard to play on drums?

61 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 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 57 exercises over 16 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor 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 Question Everything?

15 fills to learn, played 34 times: bars 13, 17, 18, 38, 39, 44 and 28 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED