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Canon Rock · Jerry C

Canon Rock · Jerry C
EXERCISE 14 OF 78
Fill at bar 36 (a small one)
116 / 200 BARS COVERED
0 / 78 PASSED · 1 BAR LIT · IN THE PART K
PART K
PART N
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
PART O
PART AC
PART AF
PART AH
PART AC
PART K
OUTRO
14 groovesHKAHACO+9Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 11
FILL · 16
LAND · 16
RUN · 1
JOIN · 15
LINK · 8
SECTION · 10
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Canon Rock on drums

200 bars of 4/4 at a walking 90 BPM, 8:56 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
90 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
200
LENGTH
8:56
DIFFICULTY
48/100

silence through bars 1-4, kick and crashes through bars 5-9, hi-hat through bars 10-36, ride through bars 37-50, hi-hat through bars 51-94 and ride through bars 95-108, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-22, 24-30 and 32-35, and 13 more places -- 21.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    88
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---x---o---x---|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----|
Canon Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20 and 19 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 61 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 -- K, H -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- AH -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Bars 19-39 -- 3 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  4. Bars 34-95 -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes. Open above.
  5. Bars 38-71 -- 10 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Through the Chorus 2 and Part X -- 6 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Bars 78-99 -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  8. Bars 96-153 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Canon Rock?

90 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 Canon Rock hard to play on drums?

48 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 33 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

200 bars, about 8:56 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 61 exercises over 13 sittings, about 29 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, 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 Canon Rock?

16 fills to learn, played 25 times: bars 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 20 and 19 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 200 BARS ANALYSED