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Dad Rock · Trsh

Dad Rock · Trsh
EXERCISE 31 OF 57
3-bar fill at bar 40
57 / 91 BARS COVERED
0 / 57 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART S
PART A
PART F
PART I
PART N
PART S
CHORUS
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesXAHAJSI+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 12
FILL · 12
LAND · 12
RUN · 3
JOIN · 6
LINK · 4
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dad Rock on drums

91 bars at 162 BPM -- fast, and 2:16 of it without a break -- on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

50 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
91
LENGTH
2:16
DIFFICULTY
50/100

hi-hat through bars 1-16, snare through bars 17-26, ride through bars 27-34, snare through bars 35-40, toms through bars 41-42 and snare through bars 43-53, and 4 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 43-44, 47-48 and 51-52, and 2 more places -- 10% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    43               44
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a 1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x-------x-------|x-------x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|--------x-------|
BD |x---------------|x---x-------x---|
Dad Rock -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 18, 24, 25, 26, 30 and 17 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 44 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 -- X, AH -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- I -- 3 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  3. Through Part A -- 3 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  4. Bars 8-17 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 15-28 -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  6. Bars 17-38 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through Part N and Part S -- 8 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  8. Through Part S and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dad Rock?

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 Dad Rock hard to play on drums?

50 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?

91 bars, about 2:16 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 44 exercises over 12 sittings, about 26 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, 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 Dad Rock?

12 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 16, 18, 24, 25, 26, 30 and 17 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 91 BARS ANALYSED