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Great King Rat · Queen

EXERCISE 6 OF 64
Groove G
77 / 186 BARS COVERED
0 / 64 PASSED · 2 BARS LIT · IN THE PART E, OUTRO
COUNT-IN
PART E
CHORUS
CHORUS 3
PART X
PART A
PART AE
CHORUS 4
OUTRO
11 groovesHEAXAE+6Fill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest
GROOVE · 13
FILL · 13
LAND · 13
RUN · 1
JOIN · 11
LINK · 5
SECTION · 7
WHOLE SONG · 1
ABOUT THIS DRUM PART

How to play Great King Rat on drums

186 bars of 4/4 at a walking 100 BPM, 7:21 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it.

TEMPO
100 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
186
LENGTH
7:21
DIFFICULTY
44/100

silence through bars 1-10, snare through bars 11-22, hi-hat through bars 23-33, snare through bars 34-41, hi-hat through bars 42-50 and snare through bars 51-58, and 15 more changes after that.

The beat

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 24-28, 42-47 and 59-64, and 8 more places -- 23.4% of every bar the kit plays. This one moves around more than most: the beat is where to start, not the whole job.

    24
    1...........2...........3...........4...........
HH |x-----------x-----------x-----------x-----------|
SD |------------x--------x--------------x-----------|
BD |x-----x-----------------x-----x--------x--------|
Great King Rat -- the groove · x hit · o open hi-hat · g ghost note · r cross-stick · X accent

The fills

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 22, 31, 41, 50, 54, 58 and 21 more.

What the course does

It cuts the song into 50 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, E -- 2 exercises, about 24 minutes.
  2. The grooves the song is built on -- L -- 3 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  3. Through Part E and the Chorus -- 6 exercises, about 34 minutes. Open above.
  4. Bars 30-48 -- 7 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  5. Bars 49-59 -- 6 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  6. Bars 83-113 -- 9 exercises, about 31 minutes.
  7. Bars 91-122 -- 11 exercises, about 30 minutes.
  8. Bars 120-140 -- 4 exercises, about 26 minutes.
  9. and 5 more sittings after that.
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Questions

What BPM is Great King Rat?

100 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 Great King Rat hard to play on drums?

44 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with how fine the subdivision is the part that decides it. The beat itself is 53 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

186 bars, about 7:21 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 50 exercises over 13 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, hi-hat, snare, 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 Great King Rat?

13 fills to learn, played 27 times: bars 22, 31, 41, 50, 54, 58 and 21 more.

READ OFF THE SCORE ITSELF · 186 BARS ANALYSED