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Dear Rosemary · Foo Fighters

EXERCISE 31 OF 44
Groove N -- Part N
118 / 137 BARS COVERED
0 / 44 PASSED · 13 BARS LIT · IN THE PART N
PART D
CHORUS
PART J
PART L
CHORUS 2
PART J
PART L
PART N
PART L
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesELJDN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 6
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
LINK · 6
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dear Rosemary on drums

137 bars of 4/4 at 123 BPM, about 4:27 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
123 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
137
LENGTH
4:27
DIFFICULTY
60/100

toms through bars 3-4, snare through bars 5-12, hi-hat through bars 13-46, snare through bars 47-54, hi-hat through bars 55-88 and snare through bars 89-96, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 13-15, 17-23 and 25-31, and 5 more places -- 31.1% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 16, 24, 32, 36 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 36 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 -- E -- 3 exercises, about 21 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L, J -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through the Break and Part D -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  4. Bars 3-34 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 13-37 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  6. Bars 35-58 -- 8 exercises, about 34 minutes.
  7. Through Part L and Part N -- 6 exercises, about 35 minutes. Open above.
  8. Bars 97-123 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dear Rosemary?

123 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 Dear Rosemary hard to play on drums?

60 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 54 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

137 bars, about 4:27 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 36 exercises over 9 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Dear Rosemary?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 3, 4, 16, 24, 32, 36 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 137 BARS ANALYSED