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Somewhere On Fullerton · Allister

EXERCISE 19 OF 37
Run D2 · Chorus 2 (bars 41-60)
89 / 121 BARS COVERED
0 / 37 PASSED · 20 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 2
PART S1
CHORUS
PART I
CHORUS 2
PART L
CHORUS 3
OUTRO 2
6 groovesDPIGL+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Somewhere On Fullerton on drums

121 bars at 194 BPM -- fast, and 2:30 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
194 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
121
LENGTH
2:30
DIFFICULTY
66/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-8, hi-hat through bars 9-16, ride through bars 17-32, hi-hat through bars 33-48 and ride through bars 49-64, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-20, 22-24 and 26-28, and 9 more places -- 29.3% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    18
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-x---x---x-----|
Somewhere On Fullerton -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 32, 39, 40, 48, 64 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 29 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 -- G -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- D -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part I -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part I and the Chorus 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Bars 41-73 -- 6 exercises, about 32 minutes. Open above.
  7. Bars 63-108 -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Through the Outro and the Outro 2 -- 8 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Somewhere On Fullerton?

194 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is Somewhere On Fullerton hard to play on drums?

66 out of 100: demanding, mostly on 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?

121 bars, about 2:30 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 29 exercises over 9 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Somewhere On Fullerton?

7 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 16, 32, 39, 40, 48, 64 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 121 BARS ANALYSED