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The Fountain · Pendulum

EXERCISE 16 OF 22
Join Part B to Break (bars 151-153)
169 / 209 BARS COVERED
0 / 22 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART B, BREAK
PART B
CHORUS
PART B
BREAK
CHORUS 2
7 groovesFBS5S9S1+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 2
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Fountain on drums

209 bars at 174 BPM -- fast, and 4:48 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid tom and kick.

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

TEMPO
174 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
209
LENGTH
4:48
DIFFICULTY
57/100

kick and crashes through bar 1, silence through bars 2-4, ride through bars 5-152, silence through bars 153-166, ride through bars 167-201 and silence through bars 202-209.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10, 12 and 14, and 67 more places -- 37.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x--g|
BD |x-x-------x-----|
The Fountain -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 56, 72 and 8 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 19 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 -- F, E -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  2. Through Part B -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 151-201 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Fountain?

174 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.

Is The Fountain hard to play on drums?

57 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 49 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

209 bars, about 4:48 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 6 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, snare, high tom, mid 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 Fountain?

2 fills to learn, played 14 times: bars 7, 8, 24, 40, 56, 72 and 8 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 209 BARS ANALYSED