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Redfog · Orbit Culture

EXERCISE 33 OF 82
Fill at bar 90
152 / 249 BARS COVERED
0 / 82 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART E
CHORUS
PART J
PART B
CHORUS 2
PART A
PART AB
OUTRO 2
13 groovesOAFBABE+8Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 14
LINK · 8
SECTION · 11
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Redfog on drums

249 bars of 4/4 at a walking 95 BPM, 10:29 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
95 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
10:29
DIFFICULTY
59/100

hi-hat through bars 3-14, snare through bars 15-30, hi-hat through bars 31-66, snare through bars 67-92, hi-hat through bars 93-128 and snare through bars 129-147, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 67-73, 75-81 and 83-89, and 3 more places -- 16.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    67
    1.....2.....3.....4.....
CC |x-----x-----x-----x-----|
SD |x-----------x-----------|
BD |x-x-x-x---x-x-x-x-x---x-|
Redfog -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 50, 58, 62 and 26 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 63 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 -- O, B -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- J -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 3-15 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through Part C and Part E -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part E and Part B -- 4 exercises, about 16 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Through Part M and the Chorus -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part G -- 7 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 8 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Redfog?

95 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Redfog hard to play on drums?

59 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 57 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 10:29 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 16 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Redfog?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 50, 58, 62 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED