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The Family Faucet · Crowquill

EXERCISE 11 OF 70
Run C1 · Part C (bars 1-19)
59 / 169 BARS COVERED
0 / 70 PASSED · 19 BARS LIT · IN THE PART C
PART C
PART P
PART AA
PART AI
PART S
CHORUS
PART AX
PART BA
14 groovesAGAIAACS+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 17
FILL · 10
LAND · 10
RUN · 4
JOIN · 10
LINK · 4
SECTION · 14
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Family Faucet on drums

169 bars at 178 BPM -- fast, and 3:23 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
178 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
169
LENGTH
3:23
DIFFICULTY
63/100

snare through bars 1-2, ride through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-6, ride through bars 7-8, snare through bars 9-10 and ride through bars 11-12, and 22 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 56, 59-60 and 62-64, and 14 more places -- 19.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    62
    1.......2.......3.......
CC |x-------x-------x-------|
BD |x-------x---x-----------|
The Family Faucet -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 30, 38, 42, 43, 47 and 6 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 59 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 -- AG, S -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- A (a two-bar phrase) -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. Through Part C -- 4 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Bars 1-27 -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  5. Through Part P -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 26-41 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part P and Part AA -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  8. Bars 51-99 -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  9. and 11 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Family Faucet?

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

Is The Family Faucet hard to play on drums?

63 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 28 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

169 bars, about 3:23 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 59 exercises over 19 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 The Family Faucet?

10 fills to learn, played 12 times: bars 8, 30, 38, 42, 43, 47 and 6 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 169 BARS ANALYSED