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the Fatal Day · Femme Fatale

the Fatal Day · Femme Fatale
EXERCISE 20 OF 62
Fill at bar 9, 41, 43 and 73 (a small one)
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PART B
PART E
PART I
PART M
PART E
CHORUS
PART W
CHORUS 2
OUTRO 2
6 groovesGBIEM+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 17
LAND · 17
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 3
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play the Fatal Day on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
89
LENGTH
2:57
DIFFICULTY
77/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-29, hi-hat through bars 30-33 and snare through bars 34-45, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    10
    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-x-----x---|
BD |x-------x-x---x---x-----x-x-----|
the Fatal Day -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- 3 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- E -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  5. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. Through Part B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through Part E and Part I -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 11-22 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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