Drones · Rise Against

78 bars of 4/4 at a walking 105 BPM, 2:58 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

PunkRock90 to 119 BPM
TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 48% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 7-8, 14-16 and 18-20, and 9 more places -- 48% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

LOOP · 105 BPM
DRONES · BAR 18
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17 and 13 more.

LOOP · 105 BPM
BARS 9-13 · LANDS ON BAR 14 · PLAYED 10 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 17 · LANDS ON BAR 18 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 21 · LANDS ON BAR 22 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
LOOP · 105 BPM
BAR 25 · LANDS ON BAR 26

3 more fills are written out on the fills page.

EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

78 bars across 9 sections: 48 keep time, 19 are fills, 2 are stops and 3 are silent. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 47-53.

PART B
CHORUS
PART M
PART O
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
7 groovesEMBOQ+2Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Drones?

105 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 Drones hard to play on drums?

79 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 58 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

78 bars, about 2:58 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 24 exercises over 8 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 Drones?

7 fills to learn, played 19 times: bars 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17 and 13 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 78 BARS ANALYSED
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