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So Long · Fischer-Z

So Long · Fischer-Z
EXERCISE 24 OF 33
Fill at bar 134 (a small one)
153 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 33 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO
OUTRO
2 groovesABFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 1
JOIN · 1
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play So Long on drums

159 bars of 4/4 at 126 BPM, about 5:03 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
126 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
5:03
DIFFICULTY
37/100

snare through bars 1-6, hi-hat through bars 7-32, snare through bars 33-51, hi-hat through bars 52-74, snare through bars 75-80 and hi-hat through bars 81-103, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 1-14, 16-21 and 23-25, and 22 more places -- 66.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    1
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
HF |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
So Long -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 26, 46, 50, 54, 58 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 20 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 -- A -- 5 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through the Outro -- 14 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  4. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 9 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  5. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is So Long?

126 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 So Long hard to play on drums?

37 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 19 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 5:03 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 20 exercises over 5 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 So Long?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 22, 26, 46, 50, 54, 58 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED