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Calm Like a Bomb · Rage Against The Machine

EXERCISE 9 OF 15
Hold Groove C for 8 bars -- Chorus (bars 48-55)
161 / 185 BARS COVERED
0 / 15 PASSED · 8 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS
PART S2
CHORUS
OUTRO 2
4 groovesCS2AS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 3
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 1
JOIN · 3
SECTION · 3
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Calm Like a Bomb on drums

185 bars of 4/4 at 149 BPM, about 4:59 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare and kick.

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO
149 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
185
LENGTH
4:59
DIFFICULTY
38/100

silence through bars 1-9, snare through bars 10-41, hi-hat through bars 42-45, snare through bars 46-93, hi-hat through bars 94-97 and snare through bars 98-129, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 10-41, 46 and 50, and 10 more places -- 84.7% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

    10
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-----------x---|
Calm Like a Bomb -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 47, 59 and 161.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 12 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 -- 3 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  2. Through Part A and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  3. Bars 48-162 -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes. Open above.
  4. The whole song -- 2 exercises, about 14 minutes.
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Questions

What BPM is Calm Like a Bomb?

149 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 Calm Like a Bomb hard to play on drums?

38 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 21 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

185 bars, about 4:59 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 12 exercises over 4 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

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

How many fills are in Calm Like a Bomb?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 47, 59 and 161.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 185 BARS ANALYSED