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Whose Fist Is This Anyway? · Prong

EXERCISE 1 OF 28
Groove C -- Verse
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VERSE
OUTRO
3 groovesCNAFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 8
LAND · 8
RUN · 1
JOIN · 2
LINK · 2
SECTION · 2
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Whose Fist Is This Anyway? on drums

164 bars of 4/4 at 140 BPM, about 4:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for.

TEMPO
140 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
164
LENGTH
4:41
DIFFICULTY
62/100

The time is kept on the hi-hat the whole way through.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 9-23, 25-39 and 41-47, and 11 more places -- 60.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |xxo-xxo-xxo-xxo-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|
Whose Fist Is This Anyway? -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 48, 60, 68 and 9 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 -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes. Open above.
  2. Through Part A and the Verse -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  3. Through Part A and the Verse -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 6 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse and the Outro -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Whose Fist Is This Anyway??

140 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 Whose Fist Is This Anyway? hard to play on drums?

62 out of 100, a step up from a first song, and the work is in how many notes a second it asks for. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

164 bars, about 4:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 19 exercises over 7 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Whose Fist Is This Anyway??

8 fills to learn, played 15 times: bars 8, 24, 40, 48, 60, 68 and 9 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 164 BARS ANALYSED