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Elephant Stone · The Stone Roses

EXERCISE 1 OF 29
Groove H
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VERSE
CHORUS
PART F
CHORUS 2
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
5 groovesICFPS1Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 10
FILL · 2
LAND · 2
RUN · 2
JOIN · 4
LINK · 4
SECTION · 4
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Elephant Stone on drums

97 bars of 4/4 at a walking 104 BPM, 3:44 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
104 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
97
LENGTH
3:44
DIFFICULTY
76/100

hi-hat through bars 3-26, ride through bars 27-34, kick and crashes through bars 35-36, ride through bars 37-70, hi-hat through bars 71-78 and ride through bars 79-94, and 1 more change after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 30, 32 and 40, and 10 more places -- 13.8% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    30
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
RD |x-x-x-xx-xxxxxx-|
SD |----x-------x---|
T2 |x-----xxxx-x----|
BD |--x---x---x---x-|
Elephant Stone -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 65 and 66.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 26 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 -- H -- 1 exercise, about 17 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- C -- 1 exercise, about 19 minutes.
  3. The grooves the song is built on -- F -- 1 exercise, about 18 minutes.
  4. Through the Verse -- 1 exercise, about 21 minutes.
  5. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  6. Through the Verse -- 2 exercises, about 23 minutes.
  7. Through the Verse and the Chorus -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Chorus and Part F -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  9. and 4 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Elephant Stone?

104 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 Elephant Stone hard to play on drums?

76 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 65 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

97 bars, about 3:44 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 26 exercises over 12 sittings, about 22 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, 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 Elephant Stone?

2 fills to learn, played 3 times: bars 36, 65 and 66.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 97 BARS ANALYSED