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Retfufkhk,//// · Im

EXERCISE 14 OF 79
Groove H -- Part H (a two-bar phrase)
134 / 277 BARS COVERED
0 / 79 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART H
PART H
OUTRO
BREAK 2
19 groovesBDAAAGAHS24+14Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 23
FILL · 6
LAND · 6
RUN · 6
JOIN · 19
LINK · 6
SECTION · 12
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Retfufkhk,//// on drums

249 bars of 4/4 at a walking 109 BPM, 8:40 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO
109 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
249
LENGTH
8:40
DIFFICULTY
69/100

hi-hat through bars 1-8, toms through bars 9-16, hi-hat through bars 17-24, silence through bars 25-27, toms through bars 28-32 and hi-hat through bars 33-38, and 13 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 175-180, 183-188 and 191-196, and 8 more places -- 25.6% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    175
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
T1 |------------------x-----------------------------|
T2 |------------------------------x-----------------|
FT |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
BD |f-----x--x--f-----x--x--x-----x--x--f-------x-x-|
Retfufkhk,//// -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 72, 73, 74, 111, 112 and 15 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 72 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 -- BD -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G (a two-bar phrase), AA -- 3 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part A -- 5 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Through Part A and Part E -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 23-32 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  8. Through Part O and Part Q -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  9. and 14 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Retfufkhk,////?

109 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 Retfufkhk,//// hard to play on drums?

69 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

249 bars, about 8:40 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 72 exercises over 22 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 Retfufkhk,////?

6 fills to learn, played 21 times: bars 8, 72, 73, 74, 111, 112 and 15 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 249 BARS ANALYSED