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Ashes on the Rooftop · lantern ash

EXERCISE 13 OF 34
2-bar fill at bar 129
173 / 238 BARS COVERED
0 / 34 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS 3
CHORUS
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
PART S9
9 groovesBDS9S17H+4Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 4
FILL · 5
LAND · 5
RUN · 2
JOIN · 10
LINK · 2
SECTION · 5
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Ashes on the Rooftop on drums

238 bars of 3/4 -- not four -- at 144 BPM, 4:58 of playing on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it.

TEMPO
144 BPM
TIME
3/4
BARS
238
LENGTH
4:58
DIFFICULTY
30/100

silence through bars 1-3, hi-hat through bars 4-48, toms through bars 49-51, hi-hat through bars 52-128, kick and crashes through bars 129-131 and ride through bars 132-136, and 7 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 4-18, 20-48 and 52-64, and 8 more places -- 73.1% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

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    1e+a2e+a3e+a
HH |x---x---x---|
BD |x-----------|
Ashes on the Rooftop -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 67, 114, 115, 129, 130, 147 and 4 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- B -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  2. Bars 62-116 -- 8 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  3. Through the Chorus 3 and Part J -- 7 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 145-200 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  5. Bars 197-230 -- 6 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  6. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Ashes on the Rooftop?

144 BPM, in 3/4, 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 Ashes on the Rooftop hard to play on drums?

30 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how often it moves around the kit the part that decides it. The beat itself is 11 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

238 bars, about 4:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 6 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor 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 Ashes on the Rooftop?

5 fills to learn, played 10 times: bars 67, 114, 115, 129, 130, 147 and 4 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 238 BARS ANALYSED