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The Final Fraction · Sanction

The Final Fraction · Sanction
EXERCISE 33 OF 36
Fill at bar 75 (a small one)
74 / 81 BARS COVERED
0 / 36 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE OUTRO 2
PART D
PART F
PART D
PART F
OUTRO 2
5 groovesLDFS6QFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 7
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 3
LINK · 2
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Final Fraction on drums

81 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
81
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
49/100

toms through bars 1-3, snare through bars 4-46, hi-hat through bars 47-49, silence through bars 50-52, snare through bars 53-64 and kick and crashes through bars 65-69, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4, 6 and 8, and 11 more places -- 17.9% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |x-----x-x---x---|
BD |--x-x-----x---x-|
The Final Fraction -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 17 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- D -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  4. Through Part D and Part F -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  5. Bars 20-65 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  6. Bars 44-59 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through the Outro 2 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
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Questions

What BPM is The Final Fraction?

123 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth 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 Final Fraction hard to play on drums?

49 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 29 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

81 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 8 sittings, about 25 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 Final Fraction?

9 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 1, 2, 3, 5, 11, 17 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 81 BARS ANALYSED