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Drones · Rise Against

EXERCISE 8 OF 32
Groove O -- Part O
54 / 78 BARS COVERED
0 / 32 PASSED · 3 BARS LIT · IN THE PART O
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
GROOVE · 5
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 1
JOIN · 6
LINK · 1
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Drones on drums

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.

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

TEMPO
105 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
78
LENGTH
2:58
DIFFICULTY
79/100

hi-hat through bars 3-6, snare through bars 7-8, toms through bars 9-13, hi-hat through bars 14-17, snare through bars 18-23 and hi-hat through bars 24-25, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

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.

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    1.......2.......3.......4.......
CC |x---x---x---x---x---x---x---x---|
SD |----x-------x-------x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-x-----x-x-----x-x-----|
Drones -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

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

What the course does

It cuts the song into 24 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 -- 4 exercises, about 33 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- M -- 3 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- O -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes. Open above.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 32 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus and Part M -- 7 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 52-59 -- 5 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  7. Through the Chorus 2 and the Outro -- 2 exercises, about 25 minutes.
  8. The whole song -- 5 exercises, about 27 minutes.
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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