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The Future Is A Foreign Land · Ghost

EXERCISE 21 OF 30
Groove P -- Part P
91 / 114 BARS COVERED
0 / 30 PASSED · 6 BARS LIT · IN THE PART P
CHORUS
PART S4
PART P
OUTRO 2
6 groovesES4PQS2+1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Future Is A Foreign Land on drums

114 bars of 4/4 at 124 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
124 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
114
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
52/100

hi-hat through bars 3-77, silence through bars 78-84, ride through bars 85-93, snare through bars 94-95 and hi-hat through bars 96-114.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 7-13, 15-21 and 23-27, and 8 more places -- 61.3% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    7                8
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|----------------|
HH |----x-x-x-x-x-x-|x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|
SD |----x-------x---|----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x-x-----x-|--x---x-x-------|
The Future Is A Foreign Land -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 22, 28, 29 and 12 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 21 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 -- E -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Through the Break and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus and Part S4 -- 6 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Bars 85-96 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes. Open above.
  6. The whole song -- 4 exercises, about 19 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is The Future Is A Foreign Land?

124 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 Future Is A Foreign Land hard to play on drums?

52 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 41 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

114 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 21 exercises over 6 sittings, about 25 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 Future Is A Foreign Land?

8 fills to learn, played 18 times: bars 2, 6, 14, 22, 28, 29 and 12 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 114 BARS ANALYSED