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Replica · Fear Factory

EXERCISE 1 OF 37
Groove L
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PART E
PART G
PART G
PART J
PART M
PART C
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesPJGEC+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 3
LAND · 3
RUN · 1
JOIN · 8
LINK · 4
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Replica on drums

111 bars of 4/4 at 111 BPM, about 4:00 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
111 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
111
LENGTH
4:00
DIFFICULTY
81/100

snare through bars 2-17, ride through bars 18-24, snare through bars 25-29, ride through bars 30-37, hi-hat through bars 38-40 and snare through bars 41-48, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 42-44, 46-48 and 69-71, and 7 more places -- 27.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    42
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x---------x-----x-----x-|
BD |x-----------x-------x-x---x-x---|
Replica -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 9, 25, 41, 56, 68 and 89.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 33 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 -- L -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Bars 4-10 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  5. Through Part C and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part G -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  7. Through Part G -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  8. Through Part J -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Replica?

111 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 Replica hard to play on drums?

81 out of 100. Hard, and what makes it hard is the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

111 bars, about 4:00 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 33 exercises over 13 sittings, about 24 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 Replica?

3 fills to learn, played 6 times: bars 9, 25, 41, 56, 68 and 89.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 111 BARS ANALYSED