the Fatal Day · Femme Fatale

89 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 2:57 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
77/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 42, and 9 more places -- 15.7% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 120 BPM
THE FATAL DAY · BAR 10
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

17 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 9, 19, 21, 25, 33 and 17 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 4 · LANDS ON BAR 5
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 9 · LANDS ON BAR 10 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 19 · LANDS ON BAR 20 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

13 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

89 bars across 13 sections: 46 keep time, 23 are fills and 2 are stops. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 50-56.

PART B
PART E
PART I
PART M
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBIEM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is the Fatal Day?

120 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 the Fatal Day hard to play on drums?

77 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 63 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

89 bars, about 2:57 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 15 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 the Fatal Day?

17 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 4, 9, 19, 21, 25, 33 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 89 BARS ANALYSED
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