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Dragula · Rob Zombie

EXERCISE 13 OF 31
Join Chorus to Break (bars 26-28)
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0 / 31 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE CHORUS, BREAK
PART B
CHORUS
BREAK
CHORUS 2
CHORUS 3
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
10 groovesDBHCF+5Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 9
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Dragula on drums

115 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 3:41 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, high tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
125 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
115
LENGTH
3:41
DIFFICULTY
62/100

silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-40 and hi-hat through bars 41-115.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 21-24, 29-31 and 33-36, and 12 more places -- 44.4% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

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

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 56, 60, 68, 88, 92 and 1 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 28 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 -- D -- 4 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 2 exercises, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- H -- 2 exercises, about 18 minutes.
  4. Bars 15-21 -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes.
  5. Bars 26-40 -- 4 exercises, about 25 minutes. Open above.
  6. Bars 39-52 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 4 -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus 4 and the Break 3 -- 3 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 1 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Dragula?

125 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 Dragula hard to play on drums?

62 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 38 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

115 bars, about 3:41 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 28 exercises over 9 sittings, about 25 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, high 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 Dragula?

2 fills to learn, played 7 times: bars 32, 56, 60, 68, 88, 92 and 1 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 115 BARS ANALYSED