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The Fish Rots From the Head Down · Ku De Ta

EXERCISE 29 OF 42
Groove Y -- Part Y
62 / 77 BARS COVERED
0 / 42 PASSED · 4 BARS LIT · IN THE PART Y
PART A
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
PART Y
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesJACAIYA+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 9
LAND · 9
RUN · 2
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Fish Rots From the Head Down on drums

76 bars of 4/4 at 115 BPM, about 2:37 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
115 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
76
LENGTH
2:37
DIFFICULTY
53/100

hi-hat through bars 1-5, toms through bars 6-14, ride through bars 15-19, silence through bars 20-22, ride through bars 23-29 and hi-hat through bars 30-33, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 15-17, 23-27 and 34-36, and 1 more place -- 17.6% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    15               16
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
RD |--x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-xxx-x-x-x-|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|--x-------------|
The Fish Rots From the Head Down -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 28, 29, 30 and 16 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- J -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AC -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- AI -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Through Part A and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  5. Bars 5-15 -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-48 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 46-62 -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Outro -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Fish Rots From the Head Down?

115 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 Fish Rots From the Head Down hard to play on drums?

53 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 24 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

76 bars, about 2:37 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 9 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 Fish Rots From the Head Down?

9 fills to learn, played 22 times: bars 14, 18, 22, 28, 29, 30 and 16 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 76 BARS ANALYSED