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The Foolish One · Chelsea Grin

EXERCISE 23 OF 73
Run F1 · Part F (bars 11-17)
59 / 109 BARS COVERED
0 / 73 PASSED · 7 BARS LIT · IN THE PART F
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
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 18
LAND · 18
RUN · 2
JOIN · 11
LINK · 4
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Foolish One on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
120 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
109
LENGTH
3:38
DIFFICULTY
59/100

snare through bars 1-9, ride through bars 10-17, hi-hat through bars 18-21, snare through bars 22-29, hi-hat through bars 30-41 and snare through bars 42-44, and 5 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

    23
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx|
The Foolish One -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 54 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 -- L -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 4 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- T -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part F -- 3 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part F -- 7 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  7. Bars 11-26 -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part O -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 7 more sittings after that.
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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