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Gasoline · Audioslave

EXERCISE 1 OF 40
Groove H -- Chorus
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CHORUS
PART K
CHORUS 2
PART K
PART Q
PART T
OUTRO
OUTRO 2
8 groovesHKTQN+3Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 9
FILL · 7
LAND · 7
RUN · 2
JOIN · 7
LINK · 1
SECTION · 6
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Gasoline on drums

108 bars of 4/4 at a walking 82 BPM, 5:13 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid tom, floor tom, kick and hi-hat foot.

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

TEMPO
82 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
108
LENGTH
5:13
DIFFICULTY
68/100

kick and crashes through bars 2-5, ride through bars 6-8, hi-hat through bars 9-30, ride through bars 31-34, snare through bars 35-37 and hi-hat through bars 38-55, and 9 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-25, 27-29 and 40-50, and 1 more place -- 30.2% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.

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

The fills

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 10, 26, 30, 38, 39 and 10 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 32 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 -- 3 exercises, about 20 minutes. Open above.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- T, K -- 2 exercises, about 27 minutes.
  3. Through Part B -- 2 exercises, about 20 minutes.
  4. Through Part B and the Chorus -- 2 exercises, about 22 minutes.
  5. Through the Chorus -- 4 exercises, about 29 minutes.
  6. Bars 7-64 -- 7 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  7. Through the Break and Part Q -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Through the Break and Part Q -- 4 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  9. and 3 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Gasoline?

82 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 Gasoline hard to play on drums?

68 out of 100: demanding, mostly on the independence between the hands and the feet. The beat itself is 47 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

108 bars, about 5:13 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 32 exercises over 11 sittings, about 24 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare, high tom, mid 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 Gasoline?

7 fills to learn, played 16 times: bars 9, 10, 26, 30, 38, 39 and 10 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 108 BARS ANALYSED