The Fear · Outer Haven

195 bars, 13:34, at 60 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot and nothing else.

Under 90 BPM
TEMPO
60 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
195
LENGTH
13:34
DIFFICULTY
68/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 20% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 18-27, 45-51 and 61-70, and 1 more place -- 19.5% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

LOOP · 60 BPM
THE FEAR · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 17, 44, 56, 60, 79 and 16 more.

LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 4 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BAR 44 · LANDS ON BAR 45 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 60 BPM
BARS 143-144 · LANDS ON BAR 145 · PLAYED 2 TIMES

2 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

199 bars across 30 sections: 124 keep time, 22 are fills, 10 are stops and 25 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 171-186.

CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART R
PART AS
OUTRO
BREAK 13
23 groovesCREBEAS+18Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Fear?

60 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is The Fear hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

195 bars, about 13:34 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 63 exercises over 17 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 The Fear?

5 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 1, 17, 44, 56, 60, 79 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 195 BARS ANALYSED
AT THIS LEVEL

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