The Foolish One · Chelsea Grin

109 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 3:38 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

Metalcore / Hardcore120 to 149 BPM
TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 16% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 23, 27 and 30-32, and 4 more places -- 15.9% 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 FOOLISH ONE · BAR 23
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 26 more.

LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BARS 6-10 · LANDS ON BAR 11 · PLAYED 5 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 14 · LANDS ON BAR 15 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 120 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22

14 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

109 bars across 13 sections: 51 keep time, 32 are fills, 11 are stops and 2 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 51-56.

PART B
PART F
CHORUS
PART O
CHORUS 2
PART T
PART W
CHORUS 3
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesLAHIBT+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is The Foolish One?

120 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 Foolish One hard to play on drums?

59 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 42 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

109 bars, about 3:38 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 54 exercises over 15 sittings, about 27 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 Foolish One?

18 fills to learn, played 32 times: bars 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 26 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 109 BARS ANALYSED
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