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This Is A Call · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 7 OF 49
Groove G -- Part G
45 / 159 BARS COVERED
0 / 49 PASSED · 32 BARS LIT · IN THE PART G
COUNT-IN
CHORUS
PART G
CHORUS 2
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 3
PART G
PART M
CHORUS 4
PART G
PART M
PART R
11 groovesCGMS1K+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 8
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 3
JOIN · 10
LINK · 5
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play This Is A Call on drums

159 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 3:53 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
162 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
159
LENGTH
3:53
DIFFICULTY
47/100

silence through bars 1-12, hi-hat through bars 13-20, snare through bars 21-27, hi-hat through bars 28-43, snare through bars 44-66 and hi-hat through bars 67-82, and 6 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17 and 19, and 17 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    13
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---------------|
HH |----o---o---o---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-----x---x---x-|
This Is A Call -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 26, 27, 31 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 40 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 -- C -- 6 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- G, M -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  3. Bars 17-31 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  4. Through the Chorus 2 -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  5. Bars 53-59 -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  6. Through Part M and the Chorus 3 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  7. Bars 97-153 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through Part G and Part M -- 5 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  9. and 2 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is This Is A Call?

162 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 This Is A Call hard to play on drums?

47 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 37 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

159 bars, about 3:53 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 40 exercises over 10 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 This Is A Call?

8 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 18, 20, 26, 27, 31 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 159 BARS ANALYSED