Get Off of My Cloud (HQ) · Rolling Stones

91 bars of 4/4 at 125 BPM, about 2:55 of playing, on crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick.

46 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

91

LENGTH

2:55

DIFFICULTY

46/100

hi-hat through bars 1-23, snare through bars 24-25, hi-hat through bars 26-40, ride through bars 41-45 and hi-hat through bars 46-91.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 25, 51-55 and 76-90 -- 23.1% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    51
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |o---o---o---o---|
SD |x---x---x---x---|
BD |x-x-x-x-x-x-x-x-|

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 56.

It cuts the song into 25 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, A -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
2. The grooves the song is built on -- B -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
3. Through Part B and Part D -- 4 exercises, about 24 minutes. Open above.
4. Through Part D -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
5. Through Part D and Part I -- 3 exercises, about 28 minutes.
6. Bars 36-59 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
7. Bars 56-78 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
8. The whole song -- 1 exercise, about 10 minutes.