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The Only Thing They Fear Is You · Mick Gordon

EXERCISE 14 OF 40
Fill at bar 25 (a small one)
49 / 170 BARS COVERED
0 / 40 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART H
PART B
PART H
PART O
PART A
BREAK 2
PART AA
BREAK 3
CHORUS
14 groovesS12S9AAHS11+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 4
LAND · 4
RUN · 3
JOIN · 8
LINK · 3
SECTION · 8
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play The Only Thing They Fear Is You on drums

170 bars of 4/4 at a walking 103 BPM, 6:36 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
103 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
170
LENGTH
6:36
DIFFICULTY
63/100

silence through bars 1-5, snare through bars 6-23, hi-hat through bars 24-25, snare through bars 26-32, hi-hat through bars 33-38 and kick and crashes through bars 39-53, and 8 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 102-108 and 110-116 -- 11.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    102                              103
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x-------x-------x-------|x-------x-------x-------x-------|
SD |--------x---------------x-------|--------x---------------x-------|
BD |x---x-----x---x-x---x-------x---|----x---------x-x-x-------x-----|
The Only Thing They Fear Is You -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 25, 65, 67, 68, 69 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 35 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 -- AA -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 16 minutes.
  4. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through Part B and Part H -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  6. Through Part B and Part H -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  7. Through Part H and Part O -- 4 exercises, about 17 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 32-49 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is The Only Thing They Fear Is You?

103 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Only Thing They Fear Is You hard to play on drums?

63 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 56 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

170 bars, about 6:36 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 35 exercises over 13 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, 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 Only Thing They Fear Is You?

4 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 13, 25, 65, 67, 68, 69 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 170 BARS ANALYSED