ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Down Rodeo on drums

112 bars of 4/4 at a walking 86 BPM, 5:09 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet.

TEMPO: 86 BPM
TIME: 4/4
BARS: 112
LENGTH: 5:09
DIFFICULTY: 74/100

snare through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-11, snare through bars 12-13, hi-hat through bars 14-15, snare through bars 16-17 and hi-hat through bars 18-33, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is a 2-bar phrase, played through bars 22-33 and 53-68 -- 25% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

    22                               23
    1.......2.......3.......4....... 1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x-------------------------------|--------------------------------|
HH |--------------------------------|----o---x---x-------------------|
SD |--------x---x-----x-----x-x---x-|--------x---------x-----x-x---x-|
BD |x---x---------x-----x-x-----x---|x-------------------x-x-----x---|
HF |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|----------------x---x---x---x---|

Down Rodeo -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 34, 52 and 69.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 30 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.

The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 21 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 15 minutes.
The grooves the song is built on -- N -- 2 exercises, about 28 minutes.
Through Part A and the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through the Chorus and Part E -- 3 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Through Part E and Part H -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes. Open above.
Through Part E and Part H -- 5 exercises, about 26 minutes.
Bars 32-84 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
and 3 more sittings after that.

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Questions

What BPM is Down Rodeo?

86 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in thirty-second 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 Down Rodeo hard to play on drums?

74 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 60 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

112 bars, about 5:09 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 30 exercises over 11 sittings, about 23 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Down Rodeo?

3 fills to learn, played 4 times: bars 21, 34, 52 and 69.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 112 BARS ANALYSED